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Jul 02.2007

hi,
I’m using document.attachEvent to trap the f5 button when pressed by any user. document.attachEvent works fine with IE7 but mozilla firefox errors out the following
“document.attachEvent is not a function”
does anyone know how to fix this. Please let me know.

thanks,
karthik

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@karthik_jscriptauthorJul 02.2007 — thanks for the help,

I use document.addEventListener for Netscape now, the following piece of code is what I use for trapping and acting on f5. this again works for IE but not for firefox. the event.keyCode returns nothing when used in firefox. any idea?

switch (event.keyCode)

{

case 116 : // F5

// alert("f5");

alert(navigator.appName);

event.keyCode = 0;

event.returnValue = false;

}*/
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@karthik_jscriptauthorJul 02.2007 — thanks for the help,

I use document.addEventListener for Netscape now, the following piece of code is what I use for trapping and acting on f5. this again works for IE but not for firefox. the event.keyCode returns nothing when used in firefox. any idea?

switch (event.keyCode)

{

case 116 : // F5

// alert("f5");

alert(navigator.appName);

event.keyCode = 0;

event.returnValue = false;

}*/
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@karthik_jscriptauthorJul 02.2007 — i used the following to get the key pressed in firefox

var theEvent=window.event/*this is for IE*/ || arguments[0]/* this is for Netscape and firefox*/;

var code = theEvent.keyCode;

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thanks for the help.
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