[thelist] Cancelling onKeyDown in Netscape 6

[Matt Feldman]

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?