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Whether you started with the old on_____ property or addEventListener, you know that events drive user experiences in modern JavaScript. If you’ve worked with events, you know that preventDefault() and stopPropagation() are frequently used to handle events. One thing you probably didn’t know: there’s a defaultPrevented proptery on events! Consider the following block of code: // Specific to a link const link = document.querySelector('#my-link'); link.addEventListener('click', e =e.preventDefault()); // A larger document scope document.addEventListener('click', documentClickHandler); function documentClickHandler(event) { if (event.defaultPrevented) {// Using the property... more →