Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

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getEventType()
getName()
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getSource()
getSourceEvent()
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Util
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getSourceEvent()

Returns the source event that fired this event, if it was fired by an event binding, such as {!e.myEvent}.

Signature

getSourceEvent()

Returns

Type: Object
The source event that fired the event.