Question

I have 3 selects that I am enabling keyboard navigation(right and left arrow keys) to move between them. The default behavior when pressing the right or left arrow key is to move up/down the list.

My solution works moving between the selects, but every time you move to a new select, the selected value in the select that you just moved from gets moved up or down depending on which arrow you pressed.

Is there a way to prevent the default right and left arrow keys for the selects? I have tried e.preventPropagation and e.preventDefault but that doesn’t seem to work.

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Answer 1

I just figured it out. I was binding to keypress event, when I needed to bind to the keydown event. When binding to keydown then you can use e.preventDefault().

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