Re: Browser Event Propagation

event.preventDefault works in both firefox and IE if you use the
modern GWT event handling(handler registration method) instead of the
DOM event handling (pre 1.6).

On Aug 2, 3:04 pm, Falcon <msu.fal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (You can also use event.returnValue = false, at least for IE.)
>
> On Aug 2, 3:50 pm, Falcon <msu.fal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In browsers that don't support the W3C event model, you'll need to
> > return false instead.
>
> > (Also, to be clear, event.preventDefault() prevents the default
> > browser action from happening, e.g. following a link that was clicked.
> > event.stopPropagation() is what stops the event from bubbling through
> > the DOM tree.)
>
> > On Aug 2, 9:43 am, magat <mathieu.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I'm currently trying to set up a contextual menu on my gwt app, that
> > > is open a MenuBar in a PopupPanel on right-click. Using
> > > event.preventDefault() seems to stop the event propagation in my
> > > browser (Firefox 3.6) : my menu is displayed, not the browser one.
>
> > > I'm wondering if this behaviour was browser-specific ?  I can't help
> > > but thinking that the event propagation may be different on another
> > > browser. I couldn't find a clear answer in the doc, but maybe I missed
> > > something.
>
> > > Thanks for reading this post !
>
> > > Mathieu AGAR

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