currentTarget property

EventTarget? get currentTarget

The currentTarget read-only property of the Event interface identifies the element to which the event handler has been attached.

This will not always be the same as the element on which the event was fired, because the event may have fired on a descendant of the element with the handler, and then bubbled up to the element with the handler. The element on which the event was fired is given by Event.target.

Note that the value of currentTarget is only available in a handler for the event. Outside an event handler it will be null. This means that, for example, if you take a reference to the Event object inside an event handler and then access its currentTarget property outside the event handler, its value will be null.

Implementation

external EventTarget? get currentTarget;