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preventEvent

stops the event processing and cancels its default action (called in some event handler)

boolean preventEvent(Event ev);

Parameters

evEventa native HTML event

Returns

booleanfalse

See also

Example

<a id="mylink" href='http://google.com'>Google</a>
document.getElementById("mylink").onclick = function(e)
{
    alert("The link doesn't redirect us to the Google page anymore");
    return webix.html.preventEvent(e);
 
}

Details

If the specified event is cancelable, the method signifies that it should be cancelled. If the event can't be cancelled the method has no effect.

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