Posted by Martin Jay on 06/25/06 13:12
In message <ce7ee$449e159b$40cba7c7$8381@NAXS.COM>, Jonathan N. Little
<lws4art@centralva.net> writes
>Event handlers attached by 'addEventListener' do not seem to pass
>values in time to cancel form submission unlike the methods that it is
>supposed to replace. In an attempt to keep the markup as clean as
>possible, I add the handlers from the attached javascript page and I
>have noticed the trouble. Small demo to illustrate:
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
><html><head><title>Attached Events</title>
>
><script type="text/javascript">
>function cancelIt(){
> alert("This should cancel the form submission");
> return false;
>}
PreventDefault();
There's some information about it and the IE alternative at:
<http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/domevents>
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