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Posted by Martin Jay on 06/25/06 13:16
In message <Cqe9lxJavonEFwwt@spam-free.org.uk>, Martin Jay
<martin@spam-free.org.uk> writes
>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>
And in particular this near the bottom of the page:
"Preventing the default action"
Looks like it does what you want.
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