Preserved Topic: Netscape 6 && onkeypress (Page 1 of 1)

I have to admit that I'm stumped on this one. How does one implement keystroke filtering in Netscape 6? I can capture the key which was pressed, but I don't seem to be able to cancel the onkeypress event. I have tried returning a false value; calling event.preventDefault(); and a few other more desperate workarounds. This is one of the simpler tasks in IE so i figured that better DOM support would lend itself to easier event handling.

onkeypress sounds like one of those events that don't *need* cancelling. It's triggered by an onkeydown and then an onkeyup event happening on the same key. So, try cancelling the onkeyup event instead.

I may be totally of my rocker here, but that's what I'd try.

Actually, you might also try

e.cancelBubble();

where e is the argument that was passed to the event handler.

[This message has been edited by Slime (edited 04-10-2002).]

This is indeed a bug in the Netscape 6 browser. It has apparently been fixed in the current release of the Mozilla engine.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54035

I just downloaded 6.2.2 and the problem seems to have been cleared up.



[This message has been edited by hlaford (edited 04-15-2002).]