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11th April 2007 - Link Blog

Disabling keyboard controls in the Yahoo! Maps Ajax API. map.disableKeyControls() is the incantation—without it, the map will pan when you use the keyboard to scroll up and down the containing page.

Posted 11th April 2007 at 1:47 pm

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