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Event bubbling phase in progress DOM element property.

Description

The event.currentTarget Event object property, contains the value of the DOM element in progress within the event bubbling phase.

• This property will generally be equal to the this special operator within function scope:
  1. When using some form of scope manipulation such as jQuery.proxy(), the this special operator will equal the context specified.

Syntax

Parameters

None.

Return

A DOM element.

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Contains the value of the DOM element in progress within the event bubbling phase.

In the example below when we press the button the first time we do a strict comparison the this special operator and event.currentTarget and output a message.

$(function(){
  $('#btn1').one('click', function(event){
     $('#scrollspan1').append('Does event.currentTarget === this? ' 
                           + ( event.currentTarget === this ));
  });
});

We will show a message here for the mouse button press.

Related Tutorials

jQuery Advanced Tutorials - Lesson 5 - The Event Object

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