try to return void(0); instead of false;
--- In [email protected], "Chandru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a flex application that loads and displays a flash swf. This
> flex component is then embedded in a web page using SWFObject 2.0. The
> requirement I have is to prevent the up/down/left/right arrow from
> being handled by the browser i.e. if the flash content results in a
> vertical scrollbar being placed in the browser and the user presses the
> up/down/left/right arrow keys when the focus is on the flash content I
> want to prevent the browser from scrolling. I've tried to handle this
> by attaching a event listener (in javascript) to the document and
> returning false this solution seems to work on Firefox and Safari but
> not on IE.
>
> Any suggestion/directions would be a great help.
>
