>> Another issue is Opera insisting on submitting the form when pressing >> enter, even with event.preventDefault() called at the right moment, at >> least it works in IE and Firefox. Anyone got an idea how that can be >> avoided? > >I've never been able to fix that, but it's been a while since I looked >into it, and I've hardly had any response from Opera users (my users >are mostly IE/FF with a pinch of Safari).
I wonder if Opera does something like not register the event until the keypress event--which would happen after a keydown event. This might explain why it keep firing. You might see what happens if you add a keypress event to cancel submit on enter and see what happens. -Dan