Is Capturing keypress in a designMode IFrame possible?

Jay Xx wrote:

I have an IFrame in design mode. I've tried a bunch of things to
capture key presses in that IFrame, but I can't seem to get it. I can
capture key presses outside the IFrame fine. I have this problem in
Firefox, not IE.

It shouldn't be any different to capturing key events in a normal
iframe. Do you really have code capturing key events in a normal iframe
with Mozilla that stops working if you switch designMode on for that iframe?
Could you post a URL where that happens? Do you get script errors? What
exactly goes wrong, capturing the key event with a handler, or perhaps
only cancellation of a key?

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Yes, here is a simple example of it not working:
http://www.jayssite.com/misc/iframesample.html
I don't get any errors. The event simply isn't captured.

I've also uploaded
http://www.jayssite.com/misc/iframesample2.html
In this example I've commented out the designMode setting, and instead
I've put a textarea in the IFrame. Capturing keypresses works fine in
that example. (Each keypress brings up an alert box)

After extensively searching Blogger.com's code, I've found the rather
simple solution:

document.getElementById('edit').contentWindow.addE ventListener('keypress',
cK, true);

Thanks anyway!

Jay Xx wrote:

Yes, here is a simple example of it not working:
http://www.jayssite.com/misc/iframesample.html
I don't get any errors. The event simply isn't captured.

I am not sure what is different but here is an example working for me
with Mozilla 1.7
<http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/javascript/200503/test2005031201.html>
Onload the keypress handling is enabled and when the user types in the
iframe the key/char code is reported.
There are buttons then to disable the keypress handler and enable it
again which work too.

Although I also put in some code in that example geared towards IE I
haven't tested with IE as your original post says you are not looking
for an IE solution.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/