Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.
The original target of the event before any retargetings. (Mozilla-specific)
In presence of XBL anonymous content this will be the anonymous node the event originally fired on. See Anonymous Content#Event_Flow_and_Targeting for more details.
Note: originalTarget
may also be native anonymous content (see bug 208427), in which case it's useless for non-privileged code.
See also Comparison of Event Targets
Example
Need an example that makes sense here
Specification
This is a Mozilla-specific property. Defined in /dom/public/idl/events/nsIDOMNSEvent.idl
This event property is not defined in the W3.org DOM Level 2 Events
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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originalTarget | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support Yes | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari No support No | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.