Question

I want to implement the event capturing model in IE8. In other words, I want the parent event handler to fire before all the child elements handlers. There are ways to workaround the effects of bubbling in my code, but in the end I create more problems for myself that way. And the visual effect of the event handlers firing sequence cannot be overcome. I am thinking about some kind of stack that keeps the event handlers and then executes them in reverse order. Any ideas, any kind of experience in that task?

Answer 1

Unfortunately IE doesn’t support this, so your only option is to simulate it somehow. You could have a single DOM event handler on the outermost element and create your own system of event listener registration.