Is there an opposite function of preventDefault() in JavaScript?

I am counting words in a text field and after a certain amount of words, I use prevent default. In the else, I would like to re-enable the default commands.

Does preventDefault() have an opposite function?

Here is some sample code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>preventDefault</title>
    <style type="text/css"></style>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(function() {
                var wordNum = 3;
                var input_length;
                $("#max").text("max word(s): " + wordNum);
                $("#test").keypress(function(event) {

                    input_length = $.trim($(this).val())
                            .replace(/\s+/g, " ")
                            .split(' ').length;

                    if (input_length > (wordNum - 1)) {
                        event.preventDefault();
                    } else {
                        return true;
                    }
                });
            });

        </script>
        </head>
        <body>
            <div id="max"></div>
            <textarea id="test" cols="20" rows="5"></textarea>
</body>
</html>

It seems to work on IE, but Firefox doesn't like it.

Is there an opposite function of preventDefault() in JavaScript?

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