Comments on: Event.stop()

By: tomo

tomo — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:03:05 +0000

Thank you soo much. This really should have been pointed put and put in a h1 tag on the prototype site.

By: Jacek Pietrus

Jacek Pietrus — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:57:21 +0000

Thank you Ryan for that advice. It also works fine with anonymous function like this:

tagA.each( function( n, i ) {
    Event.observe( n, 'click', function( e ) {
        tagDid.setStyle( { backgroundColor: 'red' } );
        Event.stop( e );
    }, false );
} );

By: Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:02:35 +0000

hi i am having trouble using this lightbox i have used the old one and it was fine but know i want to have a html file in my lightbox but once using this lightbox to do that i ge an error of: Method Not Allowed The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /crowsnest/map.html. i not sure what this means but if anyone can help me it would be appreciated thank you Andrew the error is on the contact us page if you click the “click here for map” you will see what i am talking abt……..

By: www

www — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:18:31 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.w

By: Kumar Chetan

Kumar Chetan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:57:50 +0000

if(Ryan_needs_a_hug==1) Hug(Ryan); else return false; I guess if we simply return false on any action nothing will happen. Actually I learned it way back :P am just trying to show off. ;-) Good stuff. I msut work now. Rest of the stuff I will read later.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:37:53 +0000

Thanks so much for that tipp

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:18:14 +0000

just a quick not about prototype.js... (this seems to work in most browsers EXCEPT Safari):

You can gzip the prototype.js file, getting the filesize down to 12,479kb sweet! So I now include it with:

src='prototype.js.gz'

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:56:55 +0000

Bah I used code instead of pre.

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:56:03 +0000

Just wanted to point out that the comment above by Webby does not work.

If you look int the Prototype code, the Event.stop actually calsl the event.preventDefault() method:

Event.stop function if (event.preventDefault) { event.preventDefault(); event.stopPropagation(); } else { event.returnValue = false; event.cancelBubble = true; }

By: Webby

Webby — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:50:26 +0000

To fix this issue also in Safari you can use method 5: preventDefault ;)

if (e && e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault(); //DOM return false; //IE