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SyntheticEvent

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()
void stopPropagation()
DOMEventTarget target
number timeStamp
string type

Note:

As of v0.12, returning false from an event handler will no longer stop event propagation. Instead, e.stopPropagation() or e.preventDefault() should be triggered manually, as appropriate.

Supported Events

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.

Clipboard Events

Event names:

onCopy onCut onPaste

Properties:

DOMDataTransfer clipboardData

Keyboard Events

Event names:

onKeyDown onKeyPress onKeyUp

Properties:

boolean altKey
Number charCode
boolean ctrlKey
function getModifierState(key)
String key
Number keyCode
String locale
Number location
boolean metaKey
boolean repeat
boolean shiftKey
Number which

Focus Events

Event names:

onFocus onBlur

Properties:

DOMEventTarget relatedTarget

Form Events

Event names:

onChange onInput onSubmit

For more information about the onChange event, see Forms.

Mouse Events

Event names:

onClick onDoubleClick onDrag onDragEnd onDragEnter onDragExit onDragLeave
onDragOver onDragStart onDrop onMouseDown onMouseEnter onMouseLeave
onMouseMove onMouseOut onMouseOver onMouseUp

The onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave events propagate from the component 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
function getModifierState(key)
boolean metaKey
Number pageX
Number pageY
DOMEventTarget relatedTarget
Number screenX
Number screenY
boolean shiftKey

Touch events

To enable touch events, call React.initializeTouchEvents(true) before rendering any component.

Event names:

onTouchCancel onTouchEnd onTouchMove onTouchStart

Properties:

boolean altKey
DOMTouchList changedTouches
boolean ctrlKey
function getModifierState(key)
boolean metaKey
boolean shiftKey
DOMTouchList targetTouches
DOMTouchList touches

UI Events

Event names:

onScroll

Properties:

Number detail
DOMAbstractView view

Wheel Events

Event names:

onWheel

Properties:

Number deltaMode
Number deltaX
Number deltaY
Number deltaZ