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

jQuery has a nice KeyPress function which allows you to detect a key press, then it should be just a case of detecting the keyvalue and performing an if for the ones you want to ignore.

edit: for example:

$('#target').keypress(function(event) {
  if (event.keyCode == '13') {
     return false; // or event.preventDefault();
  }
});