BACKSPACE DISABLER

Disable the annoying backward navigation that occurs when the user press the backspace key.

Features

• Prevent browser back on backspace (by using preventDefaut())
• Does not break ability of user to delete content on all known input types
• Supports contentEditable (in read/edit mode)
• Allow to apply the behavior globally or on a subtree
• No dependency

Installation

NPM:

npm install backspace-disabler

Or just copy the code inside index.js into your codebase.

Usage

Require it with CommonJS loader (Browserify / Webpack...)

var BackspaceDisabler = require("backspace-disabler");

// Disable the backspace that triggers backward navigation
BackspaceDisabler.disable(); 
// Revert to normal
BackspaceDisabler.enable();

// Can also be applied to a specific element tree:
var myWidget = document.getElementById("myWidget");
BackspaceDisabler.disable(myWidget);
BackspaceDisabler.enable(myWidget);

Credits

The ideas of this lib come from StackOverflow