Disable arrow key scrolling in users browser

Question

I\'m making a game using canvas, and javascript.

When the page is longer than the screen (comments, etc.) pressing the down arrow scrolls the page down, and makes th

Answer 1

For maintainability, I would attach the "blocking" handler on the element itself (in your case, the canvas).

theCanvas.onkeydown = function (e) {
    if (e.key === 'ArrowUp' || e.key === 'ArrowDown') {
        e.view.event.preventDefault();
    }
}

Why not simply do window.event.preventDefault()? MDN states:

window.event is a proprietary Microsoft Internet Explorer property which is only available while a DOM event handler is being called. Its value is the Event object currently being handled.

Further readings:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/UIEvent/view
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/key