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

Hi John,

I tried all your suggestions before posting.

> Try using the modern methods for attaching events 

Tried that before anything.

I would have used the Flanagan W3C/IE/Legacy wrappers or the Yahoo ones:
http://del.icio.us/metaw3/addEvent
But it did nothing for my problem. So I reverted to the Legacy model
because I want the favlet to be as small as possible. The favlet works
fine even with the new Yahoo RTE: it inserts 2 non-breaking spaces.

> useCapture: try false first, also try true

Tried both as well.

>        event.stopPropagation();

Tried it too when I used the W3C event model to see if this was the
problem.

I also tried to play with the tabIndex property as I saw that form
elements were having that attribute set: no results either.

I think I will have no choice but to save a local copy with the
problem, and go through vB code line by line. :(

Christian


--- In [email protected], "John M. Hann" <john.hann@...> wrote:
>
> 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.







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