Javascript removeEventListener not working - event listener remains

Question

I\'ve looked at a few ways around this, but I can\'t really tell, my code is:

lb = document.body;

if(lb.addEventListener){    
    lb.addEventListener(\'key         


        

Answer 1

You need to name the handler function in order to reference it later when removing the listener:

lb.addEventListener('keyup', 
function keyup(event){ // assigns the handler to "keyup"
    keyPress(event.keyCode)
}, false);

document.body.removeEventListener('keyup', keyup, false);