Gmail seems to capture all keyboard events. Any way to go around that?
dom-events, gmail, google-chrome, google-chrome-extension, javascript
Solution
I don't know the inner workings of GMail's keyboard event capturing, but I recently wrote a simple keyboard shortcut navigator (so I don't have to use the mouse to click links) for Chrome.
It's not an extension, but a user/Greasemonkey script, but it's triggered by typing comma (,) twice, and it works in GMail.
Maybe it'll help you to look at the source. You can download it here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/68609
Problem
I'm writing a Chrome extension that launches a script with a keyboard shortcut. It works fine on most pages but I realized that on Gmail it doesn't: it seems that all keyboard events are captured by Gmail and are not bubbled up to my function. I have a content script (in Chrome extension this is added to any page you want) that has (simplified of course): ``` document.body.addEventListener('keypress', myFunction, true); function myFunction(event) { console.log("yay, Gmail didn't let me down!"); } ``` But actually, Gmail does let me down. I know that the script is loaded. I tried different variations of `window.addEventListener` and other event types to no avail. Does anybody know of a way to bypass this? I tried to see if GreaseMonkey script could do it, that brought me here: http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/ but that didn't help me.