Re: [css-d] overriding normal key combinations in IE8

2009-06-11 Thread Darrin C. Roenfanz
Noel Taylor wrote: > Dear css-d, > > This is totally a DOM question and not a CSS question, but I hope that you > can > help me anyway. Apologies if this is inappropriate. > > I'm making a website where I will often have to type in a lot of Spanish > surnames > into a textarea. I want to write th

Re: [css-d] overriding normal key combinations in IE8

2009-06-11 Thread Noel Taylor
Thanks for the advice regarding accessibility, but I'm making this website for my personal use, not for the world at large, so that is not a concern. If nothing else, this shows some really interesting IE behavior, and it would be great to understand better how it works. I would still appreciate

Re: [css-d] overriding normal key combinations in IE8

2009-06-11 Thread Erik Vorhes
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Noel Taylor wrote: > > So I thought it would be fun to try to write an event handler that would > allow me > to produce those letters in the textarea in question by typing ctrl-a, > ctrl-e, etc. > > Of course, browsers already have their own functionality assigned t

[css-d] overriding normal key combinations in IE8

2009-06-11 Thread Noel Taylor
Dear css-d, This is totally a DOM question and not a CSS question, but I hope that you can help me anyway. Apologies if this is inappropriate. I'm making a website where I will often have to type in a lot of Spanish surnames into a textarea. I want to write these names with the correct accent m