Your event handlers will be passed instances of SyntheticEvent
, a cross-browser wrapper around the browser's native event. It has the same interface as the browser's native event, including stopPropagation()
and preventDefault()
, except the events work identically across all browsers.
If you find that you need the underlying browser event for some reason, simply use the nativeEvent
attribute to get it. Every SyntheticEvent
object has the following attributes:
boolean bubbles
boolean cancelable
DOMEventTarget currentTarget
boolean defaultPrevented
number eventPhase
boolean isTrusted
DOMEvent nativeEvent
void preventDefault()
boolean isDefaultPrevented()
void stopPropagation()
boolean isPropagationStopped()
DOMEventTarget target
number timeStamp
string type
Note:
As of v0.14, returning
false
from an event handler will no longer stop event propagation. Instead,e.stopPropagation()
ore.preventDefault()
should be triggered manually, as appropriate.
The SyntheticEvent
is pooled. This means that the SyntheticEvent
object will be reused and all properties will be nullified after the event callback has been invoked.
This is for performance reasons.
As such, you cannot access the event in an asynchronous way.
function onClick(event) {
console.log(event); // => nullified object.
console.log(event.type); // => "click"
var eventType = event.type; // => "click"
setTimeout(function() {
console.log(event.type); // => null
console.log(eventType); // => "click"
}, 0);
this.setState({clickEvent: event}); // Won't work. this.state.clickEvent will only contain null values.
this.setState({eventType: event.type}); // You can still export event properties.
}
Note:
If you want to access the event properties in an asynchronous way, you should call
event.persist()
on the event, which will remove the synthetic event from the pool and allow references to the event to be retained by user code.
React normalizes events so that they have consistent properties across different browsers.
The event handlers below are triggered by an event in the bubbling phase. To register an event handler for the capture phase, append Capture
to the event name; for example, instead of using onClick
, you would use onClickCapture
to handle the click event in the capture phase.
Event names:
onCopy onCut onPaste
Properties:
DOMDataTransfer clipboardData
Event names:
onCompositionEnd onCompositionStart onCompositionUpdate
Properties:
string data
Event names:
onKeyDown onKeyPress onKeyUp
Properties:
boolean altKey
number charCode
boolean ctrlKey
boolean getModifierState(key)
string key
number keyCode
string locale
number location
boolean metaKey
boolean repeat
boolean shiftKey
number which
Event names:
onFocus onBlur
Properties:
DOMEventTarget relatedTarget
These focus events work on all elements in the React DOM, not just form elements.
Event names:
onChange onInput onSubmit
For more information about the onChange event, see Forms.
Event names:
onClick onContextMenu onDoubleClick onDrag onDragEnd onDragEnter onDragExit
onDragLeave onDragOver onDragStart onDrop onMouseDown onMouseEnter onMouseLeave
onMouseMove onMouseOut onMouseOver onMouseUp
The onMouseEnter
and onMouseLeave
events propagate from the element being left to the one being entered instead of ordinary bubbling and do not have a capture phase.
Properties:
boolean altKey
number button
number buttons
number clientX
number clientY
boolean ctrlKey
boolean getModifierState(key)
boolean metaKey
number pageX
number pageY
DOMEventTarget relatedTarget
number screenX
number screenY
boolean shiftKey
Event names:
onSelect
Event names:
onTouchCancel onTouchEnd onTouchMove onTouchStart
Properties:
boolean altKey
DOMTouchList changedTouches
boolean ctrlKey
boolean getModifierState(key)
boolean metaKey
boolean shiftKey
DOMTouchList targetTouches
DOMTouchList touches
Event names:
onScroll
Properties:
number detail
DOMAbstractView view
Event names:
onWheel
Properties:
number deltaMode
number deltaX
number deltaY
number deltaZ
Event names:
onAbort onCanPlay onCanPlayThrough onDurationChange onEmptied onEncrypted
onEnded onError onLoadedData onLoadedMetadata onLoadStart onPause onPlay
onPlaying onProgress onRateChange onSeeked onSeeking onStalled onSuspend
onTimeUpdate onVolumeChange onWaiting
Event names:
onLoad onError
Event names:
onAnimationStart onAnimationEnd onAnimationIteration
Properties:
string animationName
string pseudoElement
float elapsedTime
Event names:
onTransitionEnd
Properties:
string propertyName
string pseudoElement
float elapsedTime