On IE I can do this with the (terribly non-standard, but working) jQuery if ($.browser.msie) $(document).keydown(function(e) { if (e.keyCode == 8) window.event.keyCode = 0;}); But is it possible to do in a way which works on Firefox, or in a cross-browser way for a bonus? For the record: $(document).keydown(function(e) { if (e.keyCode == 8) e.stopPropagation(); … Read more
I have some JavaScript code that works in IE containing the following: myElement.innerText = “foo”; However, it seems that the ‘innerText’ property does not work in Firefox. Is there some Firefox equivalent? Or is there a more generic, cross browser property that can be used? 15 Answers 15
This question already has answers here: How to disable text selection highlighting (50 answers) Closed 1 year ago. I am making a HTML/CSS/jQuery gallery, with several pages. I indeed have a “next” button, which is a simple link with a jQuery click listener. The problem is that if the user click the button several times, … Read more
If you have worked with JavaScript at any length you are aware that Internet Explorer does not implement the ECMAScript function for Array.prototype.indexOf() [including Internet Explorer 8]. It is not a huge problem, because you can extend the functionality on your page with the following code. Array.prototype.indexOf = function(obj, start) { for (var i = (start || 0), … Read more
How do you definitively detect whether or not the user has pressed the back button in the browser? How do you enforce the use of an in-page back button inside a single page web application using a #URL system? Why on earth don’t browser back buttons fire their own events!? 19 Answers 19
More recently, I have been seeing questions with the tag “webkit”. Such questions usually tend to be web-based questions relating to CSS, jQuery, layouts, cross-browers compatibility issues, etc… So what is this “webkit” and how does it relate to CSS? I have also noticed a lot of -webkit-… properties in the source code for various … Read more
How can a web application detect a paste event and retrieve the data to be pasted? I would like to remove HTML content before the text is pasted into a rich text editor. Cleaning the text after being pasted afterwards works, but the problem is that all previous formatting is lost. For example, I can … Read more
I am wondering if its possible to remove the default blue and yellow glow when I click on a text input / text area using CSS? 13 Answers 13
Implementing a file upload under html is fairly simple, but I just noticed that there is an ‘accept’ attribute that can be added to the <input type=”file” …> tag. Is this attribute useful as a way of limiting file uploads to images, etc? What is the best way to use it? Alternatively, is there a … Read more
Is there a standard for what actions F5 and Ctrl+F5 trigger in web browsers? I once did experiment in IE6 and Firefox 2.x. The F5 refresh would trigger a HTTP request sent to the server with an If-Modified-Since header, while Ctrl+F5 would not have such a header. In my understanding, F5 will try to utilize … Read more
