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#13867 closed feature (wontfix)
Opened May 07, 2013 08:08PM UTC
Closed May 07, 2013 08:40PM UTC
Last modified May 07, 2013 08:42PM UTC
Return jquery.Event for chaining
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | |
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| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
I think it would be nice for e.stopPropagation, e.stopImmediatePropagation and e.preventDefault to return the jQuery event object for chaining, I have checked and they currently do not return, so a return this statement should do the job. Then I can call:
e.preventDefault().stopPropagation();
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Change History (3)
Changed May 07, 2013 08:37PM UTC by comment:1
Changed May 07, 2013 08:40PM UTC by comment:2
| resolution: | → wontfix |
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| status: | new → closed |
Thanks but jQuery is not accepting new features at this time.
Changed May 07, 2013 08:42PM UTC by comment:3
See the standard, those methods are void: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-interface
Changing our event to do something different than the standard would be a really bad idea. There could be times in the future when we want to pass a native unnormalized event and adopting these semantics would prevent i
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1262