Cancel the keydown in HTML

Question

How can I cancel the keydown of a specific key on the keyboard, for example(space, enter and arrows) in an HTML page.

Answer 1

This is certainly very old thread. In order to do the magic with IE10 and FireFox 29.0.1 you definitely must do this inside of keypress (not keydown) event listener function:

if (e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault();