Re: Why is the vBulletin RTE stopping me from preventDefault()?

Hi Christian,

Try using the modern methods for attaching events (IE5+, FF1.0+,
Safari1.2+, Opera7+).  It is possible that your events are getting
overwritten.  (This also relieves your code from the duty of saving any
previous onkeydown events.)

     if (element.addEventListener) {
       element.addEventListener(name, observer, useCapture);
     } else if (element.attachEvent) {
       element.attachEvent('on' + name, observer);
     }

name = "keydown"
observer is a reference to the event handler function
useCapture: try false first, also try true

Also, try stopping the event propagation in addition to preventing hte
default (unlikely culprit):

     if (event.preventDefault) {
       event.preventDefault();
       event.stopPropagation();
     } else {
       event.returnValue = false;
     }

Regards,

-- John

http://e-numera.com/
http://ajax-web2.com/


--- In [email protected], "lacasseroland" <christian.fecteau@...>
wrote:
>
> I don't understand why the latest RTE of vBulletin boards is stopping
me
> from preventDefault()
>
> It works fine in IE with returnValue, but not in Firefox/Safari/Opera
> where I need to use preventDefault.
>
> Here is a favlet I coded for me to use real tab to indent in textarea
> elements:
>
> page to bookmark the favlet
> <http://www.christianfecteau.com/echo/textedit/textedit_favlet.html>
> link to a forum with the problematic RTE
> <http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=88384>
>
> If you inject it on a board with the vB editor and press the tab key
in
> FF, the tab character is inserted in the textarea, but the focus is
> given to the next element in the form, which is what preventDefault()
is
> supposed to avoid.
>
> If anyone knows why, please tell me.
>
> Otherwse, I will comment lines of their JS one by one until I find the
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>



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