keypress eventlistener in mozilla firebird

[Thomas]

Hey y'all,

I'm using firebird 0.7 and developed some kind of inline editing with
java script. Therefore I used the keypress event listener. The problem
is that I can only enter one character then the "find as you type"
starts. You can disable it, of course, but what if someone else uses
the web page and hasn't disabled the feature? Do you have an idea how
to disable this feature with javascript? How can I get around this?

Thx for your help, dudes
Bye
Thomas (hope, this isn't silly? it works fine in netscape 7.1)

[Martin Honnen]

Re: keypress eventlistener in mozilla firebird



Thomas wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm using firebird 0.7 and developed some kind of inline editing with
> java script. Therefore I used the keypress event listener. The problem
> is that I can only enter one character then the "find as you type"
> starts. You can disable it, of course, but what if someone else uses
> the web page and hasn't disabled the feature? Do you have an idea how
> to disable this feature with javascript? How can I get around this?[/color]

The DOM allows you to prevent the default action associated with an
event by calling
event.preventDe fault()
and indeed with Firebird 0.7 in the following example no find as you
type happens as the event listener calls the above:

<html>
<head>
<title>keypre ss event listener and find as you type</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.addEv entListener) {
document.addEve ntListener('key press',
function (evt) {
var text = document.create TextNode(evt.ty pe + ' with ' +
evt.charCode);
var p = document.create Element('p');
p.appendChild(t ext);
document.body.a ppendChild(p);
if (evt.preventDef ault) {
evt.preventDefa ult();
}
},
false
);
}
</script>
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