Handle keyPress Accross Frames in IE

Question

I\'ve been trying to handle the onkeydown event across multiple frames (no, I unfortunately cannot be rid of the frames) via javascript (see my previous questio

Answer 1

If you're having a problem reading the event object of a frame when the event is handled in another frame, you'll have to reference it explicitly

var event = top.frames.BOTTOM.event;

I've run into this issue myself, and the beginning of my event handler was

var myFrame = top.frames[0];
myFrame.onkeydown = keyboardHandler;

function keyboardHandler(e) {
    if (!e && event) {
        e = event; //For handling the event in IE
    }
    if (!e && myFrame.contentWindow.event) {
        e = myFrame.contentWindow.event; //For handling event in IE6 from inside the iFrame
    }

    if (e) {
    ...
    }
}