[thelist] Q on events
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Tue Oct 7 00:55:34 CDT 2003
jsWalter wrote:
> I have these event handlers defined...
>
> objFormEle.onkeypress = setBar;
> objFormEle.onkeydown = setBar;
> objFormEle.onkeyup = setBar;
>
> Whenever that event happens in that Form Element, that method is fired.
>
> All well and good, but anyone have any idea why BACKSPACE does not fire off
> any of these events?
I think by default IE doesn't trigger backspace key as an event because
its also a shortcut to the "Back" button. You can get around that
problem easily by simply putting a check in your functions, something like :
var key = window.event.keyCode
if (key == 8) { alert('aha! backspace!'); }
If this problem is also in non-IE browsers, then just ignore me :P
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