Question

I use jQuery-hotkeys

And the following code:

$(document).bind('keydown', 'ctrl+s', function(){$('#save').click()});

but I cannot disable the browser’s default behavior. How do I disable it?

Answer 1

It looks like you return false from your handler to disable “bubbling up” the event. So:

$(document).bind('keydown', 'ctrl+s', function(){$('#save').click(); return false;});

… but it may be browser specific. From your link:

Firefox is the most liberal one in the
manner of letting you capture all
short-cuts even those that are
built-in in the browser such as Ctrl-t
for new tab, or Ctrl-a for selecting
all text. You can always bubble them
up to the browser by returning true in
your handler.

Others, (IE) either let you handle
built-in short-cuts, but will add
their functionality after your code
has executed. Or (Opera/Safari) will
not pass those events to the DOM at
all.

So, if you bind Ctrl-Q or Alt-F4 and
your Safari/Opera window is closed
don’t be surprised.