[thelist] Cancelling onKeyDown in Netscape 6

[Michael Pemberton]

Oops, I realised after I sent my response, that you were talking about key,
not mouse, events.

I am not sure what is causing the problem.  Have you tried just trimming the
contents back after each keypress event?  I know it seems ugly and
simplistiuc, but it may be a quick solution while you seek a better option.

>From: "Matt Feldman" <mfeldman at wwwood.net>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>Subject: [thelist] Cancelling onKeyDown in Netscape 6
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:33:33 -0800
>
>I'm trying to stop the typing of text to enforce a maxlength on a
>textarea by returning false to an onKeyDown.  It works fine in IE and
>NN4 but Netscape 6 seems to ignore it.
>
>Message: 28
>From: "Michael Pemberton" <pemberton_m at hotmail.com>
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] Cancelling onKeyDown in Netscape 6
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:37:51 +1100
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
>What are you attempting to stop?  I ask because there are a few
>solutions
>depending on the purpose to be achieved.
>
>For example, if you want to stop the selection of test, the ontextselect
>method is the one your needing.
>
> >From: "Matt Feldman" <mfeldman at wwwood.net>
> >Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> >To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> >Subject: [thelist] Cancelling onKeyDown in Netscape 6
> >Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:49:18 -0800
> >
> >Does anyone know how to cancel an onKeyDown event for a textarea (or
>any
> >other form element) in Netscape 6?
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