angular · arturovt · Apr 10, 2026
diff --git a/packages/core/src/event_delegation_utils.ts b/packages/core/src/event_delegation_utils.ts
@@ -8,17 +8,26 @@
 
 // tslint:disable:no-duplicate-imports
 import type {EventContract} from '../primitives/event-dispatch';
-import {Attribute} from '../primitives/event-dispatch';
+import {Attribute, EventPhase} from '../primitives/event-dispatch';
 import {APP_ID} from './application/application_tokens';
 import {InjectionToken} from './di';
 import type {RElement, RNode} from './render3/interfaces/renderer_dom';
 import {INJECTOR, type LView} from './render3/interfaces/view';
 
 export const DEFER_BLOCK_SSR_ID_ATTRIBUTE = 'ngb';
 
+/**
+ * A symbol used to track which event types have been replayed on a given element via
+ * `invokeListeners`. This prevents the native DOM listener (registered by the `listener`
+ * instruction in templates) from also firing for an event that was already handled by
+ * the event-replay mechanism, which would cause the handler to be called twice.
+ */
+const REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY: unique symbol = /* @__PURE__ */ Symbol('ngReplayedEvents');
+
 declare global {
   interface Element {
     __jsaction_fns: Map<string, Function[]> | undefined;
+    [REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY]?: Map<string, number>;
   }
 }
 
@@ -106,11 +115,68 @@ export function invokeListeners(event: Event, currentTarget: Element | null) {
   if (!handlerFns || !currentTarget?.isConnected) {
     return;
   }
+  // Track that we're about to replay this event so the native DOM listener can detect
+  // it was already handled and skip itself.
+  const replayedEvents = currentTarget[REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY] ?? new Map<string, number>();
+  replayedEvents.set(event.type, (replayedEvents.get(event.type) ?? 0) + 1);
+  currentTarget[REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY] = replayedEvents;
   for (const handler of handlerFns) {
     handler(event);
   }
 }
 
+// Elements whose resources load independently and can fire `load`/`error` on their own
+// after hydration. Other elements (div, span, etc.) only get events from user interaction,
+// so they don't need this treatment.
+const AUTO_LOAD_ELEMENTS = /^(IMG|IFRAME|SCRIPT|LINK|OBJECT|EMBED|INPUT)$/;
+
+// Guards against calling enableSkipNativeListenerImpl more than once.
+let isSkipNativeListenerImplEnabled = false;
+
+let _shouldSkipNativeListenerImpl: (event: Event) => boolean = () => false;
+
+/**
+ * Returns whether the native DOM listener should be skipped for this event because
+ * `invokeListeners` already called it during replay.
+ *
+ * Defaults to `() => false` so that terser/esbuild can inline the constant and drop
+ * the branch in apps that don't use event replay. The real implementation is swapped
+ * in by `enableSkipNativeListenerImpl` when `withEventReplay()` is configured.
+ */
+export function shouldSkipNativeListener(event: Event): boolean {
+  return _shouldSkipNativeListenerImpl(event);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Installs the real `shouldSkipNativeListener` implementation. Called by `withEventReplay()`
+ * so the logic is only included in bundles that actually need event replay.
+ */
+export function enableSkipNativeListenerImpl(): void {
+  if (!isSkipNativeListenerImplEnabled) {
+    _shouldSkipNativeListenerImpl = (event: Event): boolean => {
+      // The replay invocation arrives with eventPhase === EventPhase.REPLAY — let it through.
+      // We only want to suppress the native DOM listener that fires afterwards.
+      if (event.eventPhase === EventPhase.REPLAY) return false;
+
+      const target = (event.currentTarget ?? event.target) as Element | null;
+      // Only relevant for elements that load resources on their own. For everything else
+      // (div, button, etc.) the native listener should always fire normally.
+      if (!target || !AUTO_LOAD_ELEMENTS.test(target.tagName)) {
+        return false;
+      }
+
+      const map = target[REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY];
+      const count = map?.get(event.type);
+      if (!count) return false;
+
+      count <= 1 ? map!.delete(event.type) : map!.set(event.type, count - 1);
+      return true;
+    };
+
+    isSkipNativeListenerImplEnabled = true;
+  }
+}
+
 /** Shorthand for an event listener callback function to reduce duplication. */
 export type EventCallback = (event?: any) => any;
 

diff --git a/packages/core/src/hydration/event_replay.ts b/packages/core/src/hydration/event_replay.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import {
   invokeListeners,
   removeListeners,
   enableStashEventListenerImpl,
+  enableSkipNativeListenerImpl,
   setStashFn,
 } from '../event_delegation_utils';
 import {APP_ID} from '../application/application_tokens';
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ export function withEventReplay(): Provider[] {
             const jsActionMap = inject(JSACTION_BLOCK_ELEMENT_MAP);
             if (shouldEnableEventReplay(injector)) {
               enableStashEventListenerImpl();
+              enableSkipNativeListenerImpl();
               const appId = injector.get(APP_ID);
               const clearStashFn = setStashFn(
                 appId,

diff --git a/packages/core/src/render3/view/listeners.ts b/packages/core/src/render3/view/listeners.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import {assertNotSame} from '../../util/assert';
 import {handleUncaughtError} from '../instructions/shared';
 import {
   type EventCallback,
+  shouldSkipNativeListener,
   stashEventListenerImpl,
   type WrappedEventCallback,
 } from '../../event_delegation_utils';
@@ -50,6 +51,13 @@ export function wrapListener(
   // Note: we are performing most of the work in the listener function itself
   // to optimize listener registration.
   return function wrapListenerIn_markDirtyAndPreventDefault(event: any) {
+    // During event replay, `invokeListeners` calls this function directly. Elements like
+    // `<img>` may then fire a native `load` event on their own — skip it so the handler
+    // doesn't run twice. Without event replay, `shouldSkipNativeListener` is a `() => false`
+    // stub that terser/esbuild inline away, so there's no overhead.
+    if (shouldSkipNativeListener(event)) {
+      return false;
+    }
     // In order to be backwards compatible with View Engine, events on component host nodes
     // must also mark the component view itself dirty (i.e. the view that it owns).
     const startView = isComponentHost(tNode) ? getComponentLViewByIndex(tNode.index, lView) : lView;

diff --git a/packages/core/test/bundling/hydration/bundle.golden_symbols.json b/packages/core/test/bundling/hydration/bundle.golden_symbols.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       "APP_ID",
       "APP_ID_ATTRIBUTE_NAME",
       "APP_INITIALIZER",
+      "AUTO_LOAD_ELEMENTS",
       "ActionResolver",
       "AfterRenderImpl",
       "AfterRenderManager",
@@ -245,6 +246,7 @@
       "REMOVE_STYLES_ON_COMPONENT_DESTROY",
       "REMOVE_STYLES_ON_COMPONENT_DESTROY_DEFAULT",
       "RENDERER",
+      "REPLAYED_EVENTS_KEY",
       "REQ_URL",
       "RESPONSE_TYPE",
       "RendererFactory2",
@@ -350,6 +352,7 @@
       "_requestIdleCallback",
       "_retrieveDeferBlockDataImpl",
       "_retrieveHydrationInfoImpl",
+      "_shouldSkipNativeListenerImpl",
       "_stashEventListenerImpl",
       "_wasLastNodeCreated",
       "acceptNode",
@@ -510,6 +513,7 @@
       "enableLocateOrCreateTextNodeImpl",
       "enableRetrieveDeferBlockDataImpl",
       "enableRetrieveHydrationInfoImpl",
+      "enableSkipNativeListenerImpl",
       "enableStashEventListenerImpl",
       "enterDI",
       "enterSkipHydrationBlock",
@@ -756,6 +760,7 @@
       "isRootView",
       "isScheduler",
       "isSchedulerTick",
+      "isSkipNativeListenerImplEnabled",
       "isSsrContentsIntegrity",
       "isStashEventListenerImplEnabled",
       "isSubscribable",

diff --git a/packages/platform-server/test/event_replay_spec.ts b/packages/platform-server/test/event_replay_spec.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,40 @@ describe('event replay', () => {
     expect(onClickSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it('should replay (load) event exactly once', async () => {
+    // Regression test: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/59260
+    // withEventReplay() was calling the (load) handler twice — once via
+    // invokeRegisteredReplayListeners and again via the listener instruction.
+    const onLoadSpy = jasmine.createSpy('onLoad');
+
+    @Component({
+      selector: 'app',
+      template: `<img id="img" src="https://placehold.co/600x400" (load)="onLoad()" />`,
+    })
+    class AppComponent {
+      onLoad = onLoadSpy;
+    }
+
+    const hydrationFeatures = () => [withEventReplay()];
+    const html = await ssr(AppComponent, {hydrationFeatures});
+    const ssrContents = getAppContents(html);
+    const doc = getDocument();
+
+    prepareEnvironment(doc, ssrContents);
+    resetTViewsFor(AppComponent);
+
+    const img = doc.getElementById('img')!;
+    // Simulate the image load event firing before Angular hydrates (e.g. cached image).
+    // `load` does not bubble, but jsaction registers a capture listener on the document
+    // so it will still be stashed for replay.
+    img.dispatchEvent(new Event('load'));
+
+    const appRef = await hydrate(doc, AppComponent, {hydrationFeatures});
+    appRef.tick();
+
+    expect(onLoadSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
   it('stash event listeners should not conflict when multiple apps are bootstrapped', async () => {
     const onClickSpy = jasmine.createSpy();