React: Difference between currentTarget and target of SyntheticEvent

Created on 25 Dec 2015  ·  4Comments  ·  Source: facebook/react

There is 2 properties in SyntheticEvent, currentTarget and target.
It is identical usage? or what is the difference between them?

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It mimics the DOM Event object API which also has currentTarget and target.

From currentTarget documentation:

It always refers to the element the event handler has been attached to as opposed to event.target which identifies the element on which the event occurred.

picture gaearon on 25 Dec 2015
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It mimics the DOM Event object API which also has currentTarget and target.

From currentTarget documentation:

It always refers to the element the event handler has been attached to as opposed to event.target which identifies the element on which the event occurred.

gaearon picture gaearon on 25 Dec 2015
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I have problem with them: currentTarget has null, but in target I have currentTarget element

max-mykhailenko picture max-mykhailenko on 12 Jan 2016

@max-mykhailenko Can you provide a jsfiddle that demonstrates the issue? It appears to work in my fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gpm18sqd/

jimfb picture jimfb on 12 Jan 2016

2850 seems to explain the reason for this bug.

kun-zhou picture kun-zhou on 26 Aug 2017
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