jQuery event.stopImmediatePropagation() Method

Last Updated : 17 Nov, 2022

The jQuery event.stopImmediatePropagation() is an inbuilt method in jQuery used to stop the rest of the event handlers from being executed for the selected element.

Syntax:

event.stopImmediatePropagation()

Parameter: No parameter is required.

Example 1: Here, only first pop box will appear after this method will stop the other pop box to appear.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <script src= 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"> 
</script> 
    <style> 
        body { 
            width: 70%; 
            height: 40%; 
            font-size: 30px; 
            padding: 20px; 
            border: 2px solid green; 
        } 
          
        div { 
            display: block; 
            background-color: lightgrey; 
            padding: 4px; 
        } 
    </style> 
      
    <script> 
        $(document).ready(function() { 
            $("div").click(function(event) { 
                alert("1st event executed"); 
                event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 
            }); 
            $("div").click(function(event) { 
                alert("2nd event executed"); 
            }); 
            $("div").click(function(event) { 
                alert("3rd event executed"); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <div>Hello, Welcome to GeeksforGeeks.!</div> 
</body> 
  
</html>

Output:

Example 2: In this example, we will change the color of the single div by using this method.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <script src= 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <style> 
        body { 
            width: 70%; 
            height: 40%; 
            font-size: 30px; 
            padding: 20px; 
            border: 2px solid green; 
        } 
  
        p { 
            display: block; 
            padding: 4px; 
            height: 30px; 
            width: 150px; 
            background-color: lightgrey; 
        } 
  
        div { 
            display: block; 
            padding: 4px; 
            height: 30px; 
            width: 400px; 
            background-color: lightgrey; 
        } 
    </style> 
  
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <p>Hello, </p> 
    <div>Welcome to GeeksforGeeks.!</div> 
    <script> 
        $("p").click(function (event) { 
            event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 
        }); 
        $("p").click(function (event) { 
            // This function will not executed 
            $(this).css("background-color", "yellow"); 
        }); 
        $("div").click(function (event) { 
            // This function will executed 
            $(this).css("background-color", "green"); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>