Comments on: Save Web Form Content Using Control + S

By: MrKenobi

MrKenobi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:28:44 +0000

Great Idea, David!
Fantastic Website, i like the Tutorials & Demos.

Great job!

Best regards, MrKenobi

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:14:14 +0000

@Nikolaj: Great catch! I’ve updated my demo.

By: Nikolaj

Nikolaj — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:01:25 +0000

David, it looks like it’s the alert-box that causes Firefox to fail.

Either get rid of the alert(), or simply put the alert/saving part into a function with delay(1), and it will work as expected :-)

Updated code:
[code]
(function($) {
window.addEvent('domready',function() {
$('content-box').focus();
$('content-box').addEvent('keydown',function(event) {
if((event.control || event.meta) && event.key == 's') {
event.stop();
(function () {
alert('Saving Content!');
//$('save-button').fireEvent('click');
$('edit-form').submit();
}).delay(1);
}
});
});
})(document.id);
[/code]

Important: The small delay IS needed in order to make it work as expected!

By: Ipan Apasia

Ipan Apasia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:38:45 +0000

hei david can you write for JQuery…?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:26:02 +0000

I’ve got about 50 to 100 textareas on my page and a lot of input fields. Is there a way to attach the key down event to the page and not as suggested to every single input element?

By: Savageman

Savageman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:24:45 +0000

Why not use the brand new Keyboard functionnality from Mootools More?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Alt+S Perhaps, that’s teh way I see it done usually.

By: Mohammad Rashidi

Mohammad Rashidi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:51:22 +0000

@kolin: Yes, i cameto mention it ;)

Good work!
recently i just saw in Hotmail.

By: derschreckliche

derschreckliche — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:29:54 +0000

Thank you very much for this post.
I always wanted to know how to handle keyboard events in mootools and this is an excellent example!

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:39:56 +0000

This would be really awesome if you could override firefox’s default behaviour!