The topic you requested is included in another documentation set. For convenience, it's displayed below. Choose Switch to see the topic in its original location.
Gets the element that is the target of the event.
  |
Syntax
| JavaScript | |
|---|
Property values
Type: Object
The original event target.
Standards information
Remarks
The target property returns the element that originally received the event. However, the currentTarget property returns the element that the event handlers are being processed for during the capturing and bubbling phases.
The target property is similar to srcElement in Windows Internet Explorer 8 and earlier versions.
See also
- SVGZoomEvent
- BeforeUnloadEvent
- CompositionEvent
- CustomEvent
- Event
- DragEvent
- FocusEvent
- KeyboardEvent
- MessageEvent
- MouseEvent
- MouseWheelEvent
- MutationEvent
- MSSiteModeEvent
- StorageEvent
- TextEvent
- UIEvent
- Reference
- currentTarget
- eventPhase
Send comments about this topic to Microsoft
Build date: 1/23/2013
