Prevent default behavior in text input while pressing arrow up

To preserve cursor position, backup input.selectionStart before changing value.

The problem is that WebKit reacts to keydown and Opera prefers keypress, so there’s kludge: both are handled and throttled.

var ignoreKey = false;
var handler = function(e)
{
    if (ignoreKey)
    {
        e.preventDefault();
        return;
    }
    if (e.keyCode == 38 || e.keyCode == 40) 
    {
        var pos = this.selectionStart;
        this.value = (e.keyCode == 38?1:-1)+parseInt(this.value,10);        
        this.selectionStart = pos; this.selectionEnd = pos;

        ignoreKey = true; setTimeout(function(){ignoreKey=false},1);
        e.preventDefault();
    }
};

input.addEventListener('keydown',handler,false);
input.addEventListener('keypress',handler,false);