Question

Hitting delete key whilst on a form

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Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to prevent the browser moving the user back to the previous screen if the user hits the delete key when they are not in a field on a form? My issue is that my users enter data through a wizard interface pressing back and next buttons to navigate. However, if they tab out of a field and then click the delete (Backspace) key it takes them back to the previous page without triggering any validation or saving the record... Thanks, James Prince

asked 2015-01-23

James Prince

1 answers

Jelle van Vliet · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-23

This is a feature in browsers, I don't think there is a way to disable this in Mendix. You can however disable this in your browser. For firefox this can be done by typing about:config as url, now search for browser.backspace_action and change the value to '2' (default is 0, 1 is page up). I'm not sure how to do this in other browsers, but google will have the answer on that :)