preventing key repetition on user input

[musicales]

Does anyone know of a way to prevent the automatic key repetitionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn from being 'on' in a web form?
I'm doing a thing that times the gaps between key inputs and this is really getting in the way.

[tedster]

Thats a very long silence for this board.

I did some searching, but found no help whatsoever - only system adjustments to change the time involved, and that's no help.

Anyone?

[BlobFisk]

I've been thinking about this one (when I had the time) today, and the feeling that I'm getting is that the effort involved in catering for this might be a little too much.

You would probably need to catch repititions of more than 3 instances (2 being common enough). You would need to build a function that looks at a string value and checks it for more than 3 occurances of every letter of the alphabet.

What kept coming into my mind was would it not be better to give your users an "are you sure" page. They fill out all the fields in your form, click next (or whatever) and then present them with a summary of the information that they have filled in (similarly to Amazon)?

[musicales]

Thanks guys - still no luck here either (ooh - you both replied before I even posted, according to the clock, how clever you are)

BlobFisk - it's not really a standard form situation I'm using - it's a javascript timer based thingy. My current attempt involves looking at repetitions that occur very close together - it's nearly impossible to type repetitions as fast as the repeater, so it should really be able to pick it up.