I have the following textarea HTML tag that I am inserting a runtime into the DOM (I have only shown how it looks after it is inserted) and I'm set the onkeypress
event to fire as an inline attribute. However, in Firefox I get an "event is not defined" error when I press a key went it is in focus.
<textarea rows="3" cols="70" type="text" name="resultsRename" value="" class="redlining_textContent_Dialog_textbox" dojoType="dijit.forms.SimpleTextArea" id="labelText" propercase="false" style="width:auto;" onkeypress="return handleEnterKey(event,doFunc();">
function handleEnterKey(e, func)
{
//alert("hit key handler");
//alert(dojo.toJson(e));
var key = e.keyCode || e.which;
if (key == 13)
{
func();
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}
I have looked at tons of help telling me that I should expect an event object parameter to be available to the js code I place in the onkeypress
attr, but I keep getting this error.
The textarea tag is not inside a pair of form tags (I saw somewhere that this can be an issue sometimes but I have no choice here).
I have tried a handleEnterKey
function with only the e
parameter but this makes no difference.
If I change the inline attribute to...
onkeypress="return handleEnterKey(this,doFunc();"
... I enter the handleEnterKe
y with my e
parameter set to the textarea object. Why Am I not being passed the event object? Obviously this works fine in IE with it's global event object.
At my wits end. Help me Stack Overflow... you're my only hope!