---
title: Event.stopPropagation()
slug: Web/API/Event/stopPropagation
tags:
  - API
  - Evento
  - Referencia
  - Referência(2)
  - metodo
  - stopPropagation
translation_of: Web/API/Event/stopPropagation
---
<p id="Summary">{{APIRef("DOM")}}</p>

<h2 id="Summary" name="Summary">Resumo</h2>

<p>Impede a propagação do evento por seus respectivos listeners.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax" name="Syntax">Sintaxe</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox notranslate"><em>event</em>.stopPropagation();</pre>

<h3 id="Parametros">Parametros</h3>

<p>Nenhum</p>

<h3 id="Valor_retornado">Valor retornado</h3>

<p><code>undefined</code>.</p>

<h2 id="Example" name="Example">Exemplo</h2>

<p>Veja o exemplo 5: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/DOM_Reference/Examples#Example_5:_Event_Propagation" title="Gecko_DOM_Reference/Examples#Example_5:_Event_Propagation">Event Propagation</a> no capítulo Eventos para um exemplo mais detalhado desse método e propagação de evento no DOM.</p>

<h2 id="Notes" name="Notes">Notas</h2>

<p>Veja <a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-flow-capture">DOM specification</a> para a explicação do fluxo de eventos. (O <a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-flow" title="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-flow">DOM Level 3 Events draft</a> possui uma ilustração.)</p>

<p><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/event.preventDefault" title="/docs/Web/API/event.stopPropagation">preventDefault</a> é um método de complemento que pode ser usado para previnir a ação padrão do evento que estiver acontecendo.</p>

<h2 id="Specification" name="Specification">Especificação</h2>

<p><a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-event-type-stopPropagation">DOM Level 3 Events: stopPropagation</a></p>

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