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Before: nothing documents which runs first when a caller passes {{on}} through ...attributes to an element that has its own {{on}}, or how {{on}} interacts with classic component methods like click().

After: the {{on}} API docs have a "Listener Order" section:

  • listeners passed in by the caller run before the element's own {{on}} listeners, wherever ...attributes appears on the element
  • classic component event methods such as click() run after {{on}} listeners, and stopPropagation() in one of those listeners prevents them
  • a component that needs its handler to run first should take the caller's handler as an argument and call it

How: the doc section in packages/@glimmer/runtime/lib/modifiers/on.ts, plus two tests in on-test.js that pin both behaviors so the docs stay accurate. I first expected the order to follow the position of ...attributes; the tests showed it doesn't, and the docs describe what actually happens.

Closes #17877

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claude added 2 commits October 2, 2026 03:24
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Adds a "Listener Order" section to the `{{on}}` docs covering:

- listeners passed in through `...attributes` run before the element's
  own `{{on}}` listeners, wherever `...attributes` appears
- classic component event handler methods like `click()` run after
  `{{on}}` listeners, and `stopPropagation()` in one of those listeners
  prevents them

Both behaviors are pinned with tests so the docs stay accurate.

Closes emberjs#17877

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013JirFwqPVyTTFj5zPbonSh
Replace the classic component `click()` test with a @glimmer/component
that has a listener on a wrapping element, and drop the classic handler
section from the docs. Also document that changing an {{on}}'s
arguments re-adds the listener, which moves it after the others.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013JirFwqPVyTTFj5zPbonSh

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Document the order of Splattributes, {{on}} modifier and component event handlers

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