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Can you trap function keys to prevent their native operations?

Apr 4th, 2008 19:39
ha mo, Darton Williams, Colin Fraser, David Coverley,

I found a way to do it, but it only works in IE and I've only tested it 
in IE5+. Netscape doesn't seem to return anything for function keys. If 
you trap the keyCode you want to disable and assign a new value to the 
it, you can do whatever you want with the function keys. The keycodes 
for them are 112 - 123. The only real use I've found for this is in a 
proprietary app I'm developing for IE, but I guess you could also annoy 
the heck out of some people with it.
document.onkeydown = function(){
if(window.event && window.event.keyCode == 116) 
        { // Capture and remap F5
	window.event.keyCode = 505;
  	}
if(window.event && window.event.keyCode == 505) 
        { // New action for F5
	alert('F5 key was pressed');
	return false; 
        // Must return false or the browser will refresh anyway
	}
}
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