event listener not working in angular( can't understand a line of code)

Masudur Rahman 0
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I know vue. Everything seems to be similar in vue with angular.In HTML template I see the following event listener:

(mousedown)="mouseDown(); false;"

what is the purpose of false here?

angular
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this is the equivalent of calling event.preventDefault(); just shorter

Zerotwelve0
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