Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

Introducing Aura Components
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Testing Components
Debugging
Performance
Reference
Lightning Component Library
System Tag Reference
JavaScript API
$A namespace
Action
AuraLocalizationService
Component
Event
fire()
getEventType()
getName()
getParam()
getParams()
getPhase()
getSource()
getSourceEvent()
getType()
pause()
preventDefault()
resume()
setParam()
setParams()
stopPropagation()
Util
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getParam()

Returns the value of an event’s parameter.

Signature

getParam(String name)

Parameters

name

Type: String

The parameter name. For example, event.getParam("button") returns the value of the pressed mouse button (0, 1, or 2).

Returns

Type: Object The parameter value.