Eventcapture

General Info

Capture is a parameter that can be passed into an event listener. The parameter takes a boolean value indicating that events of this type will be dispatched to the registered listener before being dispatched to any EventTarget beneath it in the DOM tree. If not specified, defaults to false.

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Sample Code

  divs.forEach(div => div.addEventListener('click', callback, {
    capture: false,
    once: true
  }));