Subj : Re: No window.event ? How to handle onKeyPress
To   : Sam Hulick <goaway@evilspam.org>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Feb 05 2003 09:23 pm

Sam Hulick wrote:

>Mozilla has no window.event,
>

Nor does any w3c-standard-compliant DOM implementation.  Don't confuse 
IE-isms with what's right.

> so I can't use window.event.keyCode to grab the
>key pressed, when called via an element's onKeyPress.
>

Just use event.keyCode.  The event name refers to the formal parameter 
of every event handler, not to some cruddy global window.event pigeon-hole.

/be

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>How is this done in Mozilla? Thanks
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>Sam Hulick
>Designer/Developer
>HitNet
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