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Asked: 2026-05-28T13:17:46+00:00

I want to disable or override the default help function of browsers. I tried

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I want to disable or override the default help function of browsers.

I tried to look at few examples online but they are not working for me.
(The following code is working on Firefox and Chrome but not on Opera and IE)

<html>
<title>
</title>
<body>
    <script src = "jquery-1.7.1.min.js" text="type="text/javascript""></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">           
            document.onkeydown = function(event)
            {
                if(window.event && window.event.keyCode == 112)
                {
                     event.stopPropagation();
                     event.preventDefault();
                     event.keyCode = 0;
                     return false;
                    //document.onhelp = new Function("return false;");
                    //window.onhelp = new Function("return false;");
                    //helpFunction();

                }
                else if(event.which == 112)
                {
                    helpFunction();
                }
            };
            var false_function = new function(){"return false";};
            shortcut.add("f1",false_function);
        var helpFunction = function() {
            alert('help');
        }
    </script>
    <h2>Test</h2>
</body>

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve found here this code that was clamied to work in each version of IE and FF

    <script type="text/javascript">

function avoidInvalidKeyStorkes(evtArg) {
    var evt = (document.all ? window.event : evtArg);
    var isIE = (document.all ? true : false);
    var KEYCODE = (document.all ? window.event.keyCode : evtArg.which);

    var element = (document.all ? window.event.srcElement : evtArg.target);
    var msg = "We have disabled this key: " + KEYCODE;

    if (KEYCODE == "112") {
        if (isIE) {
            document.onhelp = function() {
                return (false);
            };
            window.onhelp = function() {
                return (false);
            };
        }
        evt.returnValue = false;
        evt.keyCode = 0;
        window.status = msg;
        evt.preventDefault();
        evt.stopPropagation();
        alert(msg);
    }

    window.status = "Done";    
}    

if (window.document.addEventListener) {
    window.document.addEventListener("keydown", avoidInvalidKeyStorkes, false);
} else {
    window.document.attachEvent("onkeydown", avoidInvalidKeyStorkes);
    document.captureEvents(Event.KEYDOWN);
}

</script>

    Working JSFiddle. Note that you have to test it after clicking the result tab.

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