according to DOM specs cancelBubble is a legacy alias of .stopPropagation()

[Ahmed-Hakeem]

lib Update Request

Missing / Incorrect Definition

according to DOM spec cancelBubble is a legacy alias of .stopPropagation()

Documentation Link

https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-event

Reference

microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#1384

[fatcerberus]

Not only deprecated, but also according to MDN, on Chromium-based browsers:

Starting with Chrome 58 and Opera 45, setting this property to false does nothing, as per spec discussion.

[MartinJohns]

Needs to be fixed in https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator. Modifying generated files as you did in your MR won't do it.

[Ahmed-Hakeem]

Fixed in microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#1394 @RyanCavanaugh

[jakebailey]

This was fixed in #50884.