Event modifiers

Basic Svelte / Events

Part 1/ Events/Event modifiers

DOM event handlers can have modifiers that alter their behaviour. For example, a handler with a once modifier will only run a single time:

<button on:click|once={() => alert('clicked')}>
	Click me
</button>

The full list of modifiers:

• preventDefault — calls event.preventDefault() before running the handler. Useful for client-side form handling, for example.
• stopPropagation — calls event.stopPropagation(), preventing the event reaching the next element
• passive — improves scrolling performance on touch/wheel events (Svelte will add it automatically where it's safe to do so)
• nonpassive — explicitly set passive: false
• capture — fires the handler during the capture phase instead of the bubbling phase
• once — remove the handler after the first time it runs
• self — only trigger handler if event.target is the element itself
• trusted — only trigger handler if event.isTrusted is true, meaning the event was triggered by a user action rather than because some JavaScript called element.dispatchEvent(...)

You can chain modifiers together, e.g. on:click|once|capture={...}.