Can stopPropagation break event delegation in JavaScript?
Yes. If a child calls stopPropagation, the event does not bubble to the parent, so the parent's delegation listener never fires. Only use stopPropagation when you explicitly want to prevent delegation.
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Because of event bubbling. The click event propagates from the child up to the parent. To prevent this, call e.stopPropagation() in the child's handler.
Because it prevents event delegation from working. Delegation relies on events bubbling to a parent listener. If you stop propagation, the parent never receives the event. Only stop when necessary.
e.target is the element that triggered the event (the actual clicked element). e.currentTarget is the element the listener is registered on. In delegation, e.target is the child, e.currentTarget is the parent.
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