http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/06/09/stopping-event-delegation/ Chris Heilmann - Accessibility, Web Development and Pragmatism - can talk, will travel Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/06/09/stopping-event-delegation/#comment-7885 Peter Michaux Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:59:08 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/06/09/stopping-event-delegation/#comment-7885 I think stopPropagation should be avoided. Event delegation may be used by several unrelated pieces of code in a page. One may bit of code may be responding to user actions and updating the UI and another bit of code may be recording user actions (e.g. page hot spots), for example. If events are stopped then these other unrelated listeners cannot do their jobs. I have found there is usually another way to solve the types of problems that stopPropagation attempts to solve. I think stopPropagation should be avoided. Event delegation may be used by several unrelated pieces of code in a page. One may bit of code may be responding to user actions and updating the UI and another bit of code may be recording user actions (e.g. page hot spots), for example. If events are stopped then these other unrelated listeners cannot do their jobs. I have found there is usually another way to solve the types of problems that stopPropagation attempts to solve.

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