prevent IE's default action on drag and dropped files open

Asked Sep 13 '13 at 10:22

Active Sep 13 '13 at 10:22

Viewed 702 times

I have Drag & Drop control in my webpage, whenever user accidentally drops files other than the control drop area say on IE it opens file. I want to disable that behavior by preventing it to open except on my Drag & Drop control in web page. I have tried following without any luck.

<body nmousedown="event.preventDefault ? event.preventDefault() : event.returnValue = false" >

Note: I am using only IE8,IE9

asked Sep 13 '13 at 10:22

Giri Deshi

1

I think you're missing an "o" in "nmousedown" – Grevling Sep 13 '13 at 10:28
Thanks for pointing at, in real i have complete onmousedown. Sorry could not notice it while copying. Still no success, i am not using HTML5 – Giri Deshi Sep 13 '13 at 11:13
Any thought how to disable default action of IE – Giri Deshi Sep 13 '13 at 12:01
No, sorry. This is all I can find: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6756583/prevent-browser-from-loading-a-drag-and-dropped-file?rq=1 – Grevling Sep 16 '13 at 07:21
This has supported only on HTML5 i guess, i am not using HTML5... Can you suggest any other alternatives. – Giri Deshi Sep 16 '13 at 08:41
The only other option I can think of is to try handling the default event with [jQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357118/event-preventdefault-vs-return-false) – Grevling Sep 16 '13 at 08:56
And attaching the event to the body tag on load – Grevling Sep 16 '13 at 08:57

prevent IE's default action on drag and dropped files open

0 Answers0