Rails spinoffs - Jan 2006 - RE: [prototype] [BUG] Event.stop doesn''t stop allkeystrokes on some browsers

> a little more digging into this and it appears it''s that different
> browsers
> handle the keypress at different times (from what I can see, there are
3
> events triggered when you press a key, keydown, keypress, and keyup).
I
> changed line 1531 to ''keypress'' from keydown and on all
of the
browsers I
> tested (safari, opera, konqueror) it appeared to work fine, with the
> exception of opera, which still allowed the tab key through.
> 
That''s good to know.  I was wondering why my capturing of the Enter key
was not working on Opera.  It worked on IE and Firefox, though.  I had
something along these lines:

Event.observe(input, ''keypress'', function(event) { if
(event.keyCode =Event.KEY_RETURN) { Event.stop(event); /* more code */ return
false; }
});

And that prevented the form from submitting in everything except Opera,
although I didn''t test Safari.

Let me know if you figure out a way to stop Opera.

Btw, the keydown event isn''t what fires the form submission, which is
why capturing it didn''t work.  Event.stop only stops THAT event, not
subsequent events.  So, keydown fires, you stop it, then keypress fires
(which initiates the form submission, at least in most browsers), then
keyup fires.  At least, that''s my understanding of it.

Greg