Prevent both blur and keyup events to fire after pressing enter in a textbox

Question

After pressing enter I would like that only the keyup event be fired but blur is fired first. How to cancel blur when

Answer 1

Edit

To prevent both events from firing, you'll have to somehow mark the element before causing it to lose focus. That way, your blur event handler can tell if the event is the subject of a keyup, or if it legitimately lost focus. Something like this:

$(".textbox").live("blur",function (event) {
    if (!$(this).hasClass('keyupping'))
        alert("blur Event fired");
});

$(".textbox").live("keyup",function (event) {
    $(this).addClass('keyupping');
    if(event.keyCode == 13){ // Detect Enter
        alert("KeyUp fired after pressing Enter");
    }
    $(this).removeClass('keyupping');
});

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/GRMule/sR6zm/

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Original answer

When the event for keyup fires, it prepares to draw the browser alert dialog, which takes focus from the document and applies it to the modal dialog. This causes the blur event to fire.

The blur event is then jumping in and finishing its execution context before keyup knows what hit it.

This is demonstrated by using something that does not take the focus off the element, like console.log: http://jsfiddle.net/GRMule/7vRLW/

The order that events fire is implementation-specific, meaning that you can't rely on Firefox acting like IE. See the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-eventgroupings. Try the fiddle with alerts in IE, and in this case you'll see that blur does hit before keyup in IE 7 -- and blur doesn't fire in Chrome!