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<p>The Event object is the base class for any of the other event types, such as <a href="/reference/mouseevent"><tt>MouseEvent</tt></a>, <a href="/reference/toolevent"><tt>ToolEvent</tt></a> and <a href="/reference/keyevent"><tt>KeyEvent</tt></a>.</p>

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<a name="timestamp" href="#timestamp"><tt><b>timeStamp</b></tt></a>
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	<p>The time at which the event was created, in milliseconds since the epoch.</p>
	
		<p>Read only.</p>
	
	
	
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			<tt>Number</tt>
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<a name="modifiers" href="#modifiers"><tt><b>modifiers</b></tt></a>
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	<p>The current state of the keyboard modifiers.</p>
	
		<p>Read only.</p>
	
	
	
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		<h4>See also:</h4>
		
			<li><tt><a href="/reference/key#modifiers"><tt>Key.modifiers</tt></a></tt></li>
		
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<a name="preventdefault" href="#preventdefault"><tt><b>preventDefault</b>()</tt></a>
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	<p>Cancels the event if it is cancelable, without stopping further propagation of the event.</p>
    
	
	


	
	
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<a name="stoppropagation" href="#stoppropagation"><tt><b>stopPropagation</b>()</tt></a>
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	<p>Prevents further propagation of the current event.</p>
    
	
	


	
	
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<a name="stop" href="#stop"><tt><b>stop</b>()</tt></a>
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	<p>Cancels the event if it is cancelable, and stops stopping further propagation of the event. This is has the same effect as calling both <a href="/reference/event#stoppropagation"><tt>stopPropagation</tt></a>() and <a href="/reference/event#preventdefault"><tt>preventDefault</tt></a>().</p>
<p>Any handler can also return <code>false</code> to indicate that <code>stop()</code> should be called right after.</p>
    
	
	


	
	
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