Deprecate and Remove: setting Event.cancelBubble to false

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Removed (Chrome 58)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Published standard

Summary

According to https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/211, setting cancelBubble to true is considered as an alias to stopPropagation(), and the spec indicates setting cancelBubble to false should do nothing.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-event-cancelbubble
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675549

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=deprecate-and-remove-setting-event-cancelbubble-to-false
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Deprecate%20and%20Remove%3A%20setting%20Event.cancelBubble%20to%20false
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Deprecate%20and%20Remove%3A%20setting%20Event.cancelBubble%20to%20false
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Deprecate%20and%20Remove%3A%20setting%20Event.cancelBubble%20to%20false

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