> On 10/8/07, Simon Cockayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Adding DOCTYPE stops page functioning with IE!
> >
> >
> > The following HTML works (in QUIRKS) for both IE and
> > Firefox...alertING "Key Pressed!"...erm...when a key is pressed.
> >
> > <html lang="en-US">
> > <head>
> > <title>
> > Keypress testing.
> > </title>
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript" >
> > function handleKeyPress(evt) {
> > alert("Key pressed!")
> > }
> > </script>
> >
> > </head>
> >
> > <body onkeydown="handleKeyPress(event);">
> > <p>Press a key!</p>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> >
> > However, adding...
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> > " http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
> >
> > ...before the <HTML>...makes the Firefox page valid AND it still works ok.
> >
> > Whereas the IE page, though also now valid, but no alert appears upon key
> press!
Does it matter whether you return true or false? Because every example
I've seen returns something, but you don't return anything.
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Christian Montoya
christianmontoya.net
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