What are the common ways to prevent bubbling events?

What are the commonly used commands to prevent bubbling events?

In web development, we often encounter situations where we need to handle event bubbling. When an event is triggered on an element, such as a click event, its parent element will also trigger the same event. This behavior of event delivery is called event bubbling. Sometimes, we want to prevent an event from bubbling up, so that the event only fires on the current element, and prevents it from being passed to superior elements. To achieve this, we can use some common directives that prevent bubbling events.

1. event.stopPropagation()
   This is one of the most common and simplest ways to stop bubbling. When an event is triggered, calling the stopPropagation() method can prevent the event from continuing to propagate. This method can only prevent the event from bubbling, but cannot prevent the event's default behavior.
2. event.stopImmediatePropagation()
   Similar to stopPropagation(), the stopImmediatePropagation() method can also prevent events from bubbling, but its function is more powerful. Not only does it prevent the event from bubbling up, it also prevents subsequent event handlers from being called. If you have multiple event handlers on the same element and want to execute only one of them, you can use the stopImmediatePropagation() method.
3. event.cancelBubble
   This is a compatibility method commonly used in older versions of IE browsers. Setting event.cancelBubble to true prevents events from bubbling.
4. return false
   In JavaScript, an easy way is to use return false in an event handler. Its function is equivalent to calling event.stopPropagation() and event.preventDefault() at the same time, which not only prevents the event from bubbling, but also prevents the default behavior of the event. But it should be noted that if return false is used elsewhere, such as in a normal function, it will only prevent the default behavior and will not affect event bubbling.

Although the above methods can prevent events from bubbling, in actual development, we should use them with caution. Excessive use of methods that prevent event bubbling may lead to poor readability of the code and make event handling overly complex. When writing code, you should try to take into account the overall logic of event propagation and avoid over-reliance on methods that prevent bubbling.

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