addEventListener AddEventListenerOptions API

Category: DOM
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 52)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Working draft

Summary

EventListenerOptions API was added in https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5718574840676352 The spec was revised to add AddEventListenerOptions which is a dictionary only for addEventListener(...) so that fields could be added that did not make up the matching key. This change is to move the add the AddEventListenerOptions dictionary definition, change the API and move the 'passive' field from EventListenerOptions to AddEventListenerOptions

Standards & signals

Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-eventtarget-addeventlistener
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: In development
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/602735

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=addeventlistener-addeventlisteneroptions-api
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+addEventListener%20AddEventListenerOptions%20API
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=addEventListener%20AddEventListenerOptions%20API
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=addEventListener%20AddEventListenerOptions%20API

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/issues/27 https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/a13a3c7fc14732691b50c51316b16de0915a61f2

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