[Solved] RadEditor attachEventHandler onkeydown CTRL+S shows Save As dialog in Firefox

[Craig Somers]

Hi There,

I have a RadEditor control on my page with the following lines of client side code:

editor.attachEventHandler("onkeydown", OnKeyDown);

function OnKeyDown(e)
{
  if (e.ctrlKey === true && String.fromCharCode(evtobj.keyCode) === "S")
  {
     alert("Custom Save");
     return stopPropagation(e);
  }
}

function StopPropogation(e)
{
    e.cancelBubble = true;
    e.returnValue = false;

    if (e.stopPropagation)
    {
        e.stopPropagation();
        e.preventDefault();
    }

    return false;
}

This works in IE and Firefox, except that in Firefox the "Save As" dialog appears, no matter what i try. If i add a debugger line in my OnKeyDown method, the breakpoint gets hit AFTER the SaveAs dialog appears - so it seems that the attachEventHandler method of telerik adds the event too late or executes my code too late?

Applying my code to a test HTML page with:

document.onkeydown = OnKeyDown;

...works fine.

What is telerik RadEditor doing differently? What can I do to work around this?

Thanks.

[Rumen]

Hello Craig,

Please note that you cannot compare RadEditor with the document object of the page because the content area of RadEditor is another document. The problem is a browser behavior is related to the alert() function.

You can verify this by testing the code below:

<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1" Skin="Forest" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad">
    <Content>sample content</Content>
</telerik:radeditor>
<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientLoad(editor)
{
    editor.attachEventHandler("onkeydown", OnKeyDown);
}

function OnKeyDown(e)
{
  if (e.ctrlKey === true && String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode) === "S")
  {
     dump("Custom Save");
     $telerik.cancelRawEvent(e);

  }
}
function dump(text)
    {
        $get("dbd").innerHTML = " " + text;
    }
</script>
<div id="dbd" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:10px;"> </div>

 You will see that after removing the alert then Firefox does not launch its Save As dialog.

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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