Disable backspace key as 'go back'

Does anyone know a way to prevent the backspace key from acting like a shortcut for "Go back"?
I never, ever use backspace for that function. The only times I go to the previous webpage by pressing the backspace key are unintentional and often cause loss of information on dynamic webpages.
I believe that making the backspace key act as both a text editing tool and a history navigation shortcut, based solely on whether the cursor is inside a text field or not, is a serious design flaw. I may be mistaken but I believe this behaviour was copied from Internet Explorer. Why on earth did Apple copy a design flaw from the most flawed browser in the world?
So, kudos to anyone who knows a Safari equivalent of setting "browser.backspace_action 2" in Firefox.

Hi Derek,
This feature is sufficiently annoying to make we want to change browsers until Apple fixes it.
Safari menu > Report Bugs to Apple...
Everyone here on the forum is just a fellow user like yourself. I'm not aware of a way to override it, but maybe someone else will chime in.

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You can set the Integer pref <b>browser.backspace_action</b> to <i>2</i> on the <b>about:config</b> page to disable the backspace action. BTW Shift + Backspace does the reverse: going Forward if possible, so that is taken as well.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.backspace_action
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

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I'm trying to figure out how to disable the backspace key on
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characters?

Hmmm... I've not seen where you can't type after deleting all
the
characters. Do you maybe have the input set to multiline and
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Backspace key disable

this is sort of a javascript question, but its on my jsp pages so i'll ask. ;)
I would like to be able to disable the backspace key so that
a user cannot hit it to travel back a page. However, i want to leave
it enabled so that they can at least backspace while in form text elements and text areas, etc.
i have this bit of code (see bottom) that will capture the backspace, but it turns it off even for the text elements in a form.
the good news is that its for an intranet application and we are only going to be supporting IE 5.5 or better, so it doesn't have to be cross browser compatible
thanks,
ken
<script language="JavaScript"></script>

There are two ways to approach this, and neither are very elegant, though they both should work in i.e. (other browsers will presumably have an analogous method for accomplishing them). Firstly, you could use a client script to populate the onblur and onfocus properties of all your forms on the client page. Something like
for(var i = 0; i < document.forms.lenth; i++) {
    document.forms.item(i).onfocus = "inform=true";
    document.forms.item(i).onblur = "inform=false";
}This means that you could leave your forms the way they are. Note that the forms collection of the document is an i.e. only thing. Alternatively, and this is the preferred method, you could simply ask the even which object fired it and evaluate whether or not to cancel the event using an if statement. Again, in i.e. only, every event has the srcElement property which is the object that fired the even. In the case of a keydown event, the object that fires the event is whatever is selected when you press the key. Specifically, if the backspace key is pressed in a text field or textbox etc. it will tell you if you ask. Something like
document.onkeydown = keyCatcher
function keyCatcher() {
    var e = event.type;
    if(event.keyCode==8 && e != "text" && e !="password" && e !="textarea" ) {
        event.cancelBubble = true;
        event.returnValue = false;
}You'll notice that the previous method is by far the fastest as it only has 3 compisons, as opposed to the many required for sorting through all of the form and input elements. Also you need no global variables.
Lastly you could check to see if an input tag is the activeElement when the backspace key is pressed and if one is, block it. Something like
document.onkeydown = keyCatcher
function keyCatcher() {
    if(event.keyCode==8 ) {
        for(var i = 0; i < document.tags("input").lenth; i++) {
            if(document.tags("input").item(i) == document.activeElement) {
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                event.returnValue = false;
}Again, both the tags collection and the activeElement property are I.E. only things. For other browsers I assume you would need some kind of detection script and some options (or just don't block they're backspace keys). Also, I haven't tested any of this code, but you get the idea.

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Why does the backspace key now make the browser go back to the last page viewed, and how can I change that setting?

When typing in a browser page to reply to a blog, when I pressed the backspace key to correct a typo, suddenly the browser went back to the previous web page. How can this setting be changed or turned off?

This should never happen when the cursor is in an editing control, but it has always done that if the focus was on the page itself.
Here's how to change it:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box that appears above the list, type or paste '''backs''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the '''browser.backspace_action''' preference and enter the desired value:
* 0 => back (default)
* 1 => page up
* 2 => ignore (actually, anything other than 0 or 1 does nothing)
OK to save the change. You're done.

Anyway to Disable Backspace as a shortcut for going back?

Sometimes, when posting on a forum like this ... or really anywhere on the web, if I accidently leave a text field (after spending way too much time writing something really witty of course) or accidently hit backspace, Safari 5.03 goes back. I know it's my fault for screwing up, but losing my work over a stupid mistake really *****. Anyway a cluts like me can disable BACKSPACE as a short cut for going back in Safari??? It's driving me nuts, but I don't really want to use IE or any other browser.

yes (i should have been clearer), with that option set hitting backspace puts you back in a text field (if there is one) instead of going back one page. it should work properly once you've reloaded any pre-existing pages but do let me know if there are cases* where it doesn't.
*it obviously doesn't work where safari extensions are disabled, like on extensions.apple.com.

Microsoft Excel keeps freezing on back after using backspace key

Don't know if this can be answered here, but I keep trying to use the backspace key in Excel and I keep getting a beachball, where only Excel freezes but I can use the rest of my computer. Any help?
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, no office updates needed. Office 2004. Never had issues with this until recently.
Thanks in advance.

I suggest you try MS's own forums for their Mac products, as it's their software you're having issues with
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

Disable Backspace when in input text fields

Im trying to find a way to disable the keyboard backspace
button from going back a page in the site but allowing it to
function as a character delete when needed for typing in an input
text field of a form.
Strangely this problem only occurs for about a minute after
the page is opened....after that it then works correctly. You can
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I have found two different sets of code to disable the
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Method 1:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (typeof window.event != 'undefined')
document.onkeydown = function()
if (event.srcElement.tagName.toUpperCase() != 'INPUT')
return (event.keyCode != 8);
else
document.onkeypress = function(e)
if (e.target.nodeName.toUpperCase() != 'INPUT')
return (e.keyCode != 8);
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Method 2:
<script>
function checkShortcut()
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Anyone know how I can overcome this?

The TextField class has a tab order property. You may want to
look into this. As for disabling the backspace key, you can grab
key presses from user input. I'm not 100% on this but you could use
Flash to test the key being pressed. If backspace is pressed, find
out the current object with focus (unsure of this part), if it's an
input box in flash, have flash handle it or if a text box doesn't
have focus, send it out to javascript to have it handle it.

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Hi,
i noticed some nasty thing about pressing BACKSPACE key in a form.
it causes navigation to previous page .
How can i tackle it?
JDev 11.1.2.3

Hi
It is not related to ADF and web browser behavior
See
http://mcrusch.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/disabling-back-behavior-of-backspace-in-browser/

Disable backspace in dgv combobox

I would like to disable backspace and delete in a combo box in a dgv
I used the following
Private Sub frmWorkSelectionPopupAll_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Delete And e.KeyCode = Keys.Back Then
e.Handled = True
End If
End Sub
Delete is disabled, backspace is not.
I have set the form KeyPreview to True.
Can you please suggest something?
John

The options for DisplayStyle are "ComboBox", "DropDownButton" and "Nothing". No luck with any of the 3.
Are you referring to something else?
I tried to replicate the issue by creating an app with a DataGridView and three columns. However I could not EDIT in the ComboBox column anything without using a special Sub routine to do that.
Nothing I tried would let me use the keyboard or mouse to do anything in the ComboBox. Except for using Edit Mode and AutoComplete in which AutoComplete is unecessary in your situation I would imagine. Then I could type a letter while over the ComboBox
and I suppose if something in the ComboBox's list matched it would display. But even then I couldn't backspace or anything else or actually alter text displayed by the ComboBox.
And I believe from this link
Problem with combobox and databound datagridview that this statement is entirely accurate "The ComboBox used by the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn has a DropDownStyle property set to ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList, but DataGridViewComboBoxColumn does
not expose this property, so out-of-box there is no way to type text into a combobox column."
However at that link is code supplied which can not only provide the ability to edit text in a ComboBox in the ComboBox column but actually add new items to the ComboBox list (or alter it to remove items, whatever) which I used in the below code the Sub
that allows editing text in a ComboBox in a ComboBox column. So unless you are doing something along those lines I really don't know why you are having an issue. Nobody should be able to alter anything in the ComboBox's in the ComboBox column using the keyboard.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
DataGridView1.EditMode = DataGridViewEditMode.EditOnEnter
DataGridView1.ColumnCount = 3
DataGridView1.Columns(0).Name = "Product ID"
DataGridView1.Columns(1).Name = "Product Name"
DataGridView1.Columns(2).Name = "Product Price"
Dim row As String() = New String() {"1", "Product 1", "1000"}
DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
row = New String() {"2", "Product 2", "2000"}
DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
row = New String() {"3", "Product 3", "3000"}
DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
row = New String() {"4", "Product 4", "4000"}
DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
Dim cmb As New DataGridViewComboBoxColumn()
cmb.DisplayStyle = DataGridViewComboBoxDisplayStyle.DropDownButton
cmb.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Flat
cmb.AutoComplete = True
cmb.HeaderText = "Select Data"
cmb.Name = "cmb"
cmb.MaxDropDownItems = 4
cmb.Items.Add("Hello")
cmb.Items.Add("Goodbye")
cmb.Items.Add("Seriously?")
cmb.Items.Add("Not")
DataGridView1.Columns.Add(cmb)
End Sub
Private Sub DataGridView1_EditingControlShowing(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewEditingControlShowingEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.EditingControlShowing
'Allow user to enter new values for ALL DataGridViewComboBox controls in the DataGridView
If (TypeOf e.Control Is DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl) Then
Dim cmb As DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl = CType(e.Control, DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl)
If Not cmb Is Nothing Then
cmb.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDown
End If
End If
End Sub
End Class
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Am I missing something or is there somewhere else I should be looking to fix this besides going into System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse
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I need some assistance on stopping my backspace key from "sticking" on my iPad 2?

I have reset, restored, and rebooted. Nothing is working. My backspace key goes rogue even if I only hit it once. I've had this pad for 3 days and I'm a bit frustrated. I've noticed that the backspace key goes haywire in almost all third party apps but it also happens when I type email, calendar , events, and notes. The only way I can stop this from happening is to hit the spacebar multiple times or any other key on board. I am not new to Apple products as I have had several iPhones, iPod touches, and I had a Mac Book Pro for work. I have searched the communities and saw that this was an issue with earlier iPhones but I have not read anything to iPad 2. Any helpful assistance you can provide is appreciated.

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Backspace Key stopped working normally on Macbook Pro

Hello,
I was able to use my backspace/return key totally fine by just pressing it and it would go back a space. One day i start my laptop up and i am not able to go back anymore, absolutely nothing happens when i press my backspace key, i now have to press fn+backspace in order to use the normal backspace option of deleting one letter or several letters that i have just typed. It doesn't seem to be a hardware issue as the backpace is now fn+backspace, how do i get it to go back to normal as it is tres annoying to press two keys for this? Any help is much appreciated.

Create another user account on the computer and see if it behaves the same way. If it does then it's probably a hardware issue, if it doesn't then it's software and most likely a setting that has changed.

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