javascript - Prevent line/paragraph breaks in contentEditable

Question

When using contentEditable in Firefox, is there a way to prevent the user from inserting paragraph or line breaks by pressing enter or shift+enter?

Answer 1

You can attach an event handler to the keydown or keypress event for the contentEditable field and cancel the event if the keycode identifies itself as enter (or shift+enter).

This will disable enter/shift+enter completely when focus is in the contentEditable field.

If using jQuery, something like:

$("#idContentEditable").keypress(function(e){ return e.which != 13; });

...which will return false and cancel the keypress event on enter.