defaultPrevented Event Property
Example
Prevent a link from opening the URL, and check if preventDefault() was called:
document.getElementById("myAnchor").addEventListener("click", function(event){
event.preventDefault()
alert("Was preventDefault() called: " + event.defaultPrevented);
});
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Description
The defaultPrevented event property checks whether the preventDefault() method was called for the event.
Syntax
event.defaultPrevented
Technical Details
| Return Value: | A Boolean, indicating whether the preventDefault() method was called for the event.
Possible values:
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| DOM Version: | DOM Level 3 Events |
Browser Support
event.delfaultPrevented() is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.
It is fully supported in all modern browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
