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Which keycode for escape key with jQuery
How to detect escape key press in IE, Firefox and Chrome?
Below code works in IE and alerts 27, but in Firefox it alerts 0
$('body').keypress(function(e){
alert(e.which);
if(e.which == 27){
// Close my modal window
}
});
Note: keyCode is becoming deprecated, use key instead.
function keyPress (e) {
if(e.key === "Escape") {
// write your logic here.
}
}
Code Snippet:
var msg = document.getElementById('state-msg');
document.body.addEventListener('keypress', function(e) {
if (e.key == "Escape") {
msg.textContent += 'Escape pressed:'
}
});
Press ESC key <span id="state-msg"></span>
keyCode is becoming deprecated
It seems keydown and keyup work, even though keypress may not
$(document).keyup(function(e) {
if (e.key === "Escape") { // escape key maps to keycode `27`
// <DO YOUR WORK HERE>
}
});
Which keycode for escape key with jQuery
The keydown event will work fine for Escape and has the benefit of allowing you to use keyCode in all browsers. Also, you need to attach the listener to document rather than the body.
Update May 2016
keyCode is now in the process of being deprecated and most modern browsers offer the key property now, although you'll still need a fallback for decent browser support for now (at time of writing the current releases of Chrome and Safari don't support it).
Update September 2018
evt.key is now supported by all modern browsers.
document.onkeydown = function(evt) {
evt = evt || window.event;
var isEscape = false;
if ("key" in evt) {
isEscape = (evt.key === "Escape" || evt.key === "Esc");
} else {
isEscape = (evt.keyCode === 27);
}
if (isEscape) {
alert("Escape");
}
};
Click me then press the Escape key
Using JavaScript you can do check working jsfiddle
document.onkeydown = function(evt) {
evt = evt || window.event;
if (evt.keyCode == 27) {
alert('Esc key pressed.');
}
};
Using jQuery you can do check working jsfiddle
jQuery(document).on('keyup',function(evt) {
if (evt.keyCode == 27) {
alert('Esc key pressed.');
}
});
check for keyCode && which & keyup || keydown
$(document).keydown(function(e){
var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
alert(code);
});
Pure JS
you can attach a listener to keyUp event for the document.
Also, if you want to make sure, any other key is not pressed along with Esc key, you can use values of ctrlKey, altKey, and shifkey.
document.addEventListener('keydown', (event) => {
if (event.key === 'Escape') {
//if esc key was not pressed in combination with ctrl or alt or shift
const isNotCombinedKey = !(event.ctrlKey || event.altKey || event.shiftKey);
if (isNotCombinedKey) {
console.log('Escape key was pressed with out any group keys')
}
}
});
pure JS (no JQuery)
document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
if(e.keyCode == 27){
//add your code here
}
});
Below is the code that not only disables the ESC key but also checks the condition where it is pressed and depending on the situation, it will do the action or not.
In this example,
e.preventDefault();
will disable the ESC key-press action.
You may do anything like to hide a div with this:
document.getElementById('myDivId').style.display = 'none';
Where the ESC key pressed is also taken into consideration:
(e.target.nodeName=='BODY')
You may remove this if condition part if you like to apply to this to all. Or you may target INPUT here to only apply this action when the cursor is in input box.
window.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){
if((e.key=='Escape'||e.key=='Esc'||e.keyCode==27) && (e.target.nodeName=='BODY')){
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
}, true);
Best way is to make function for this
FUNCTION:
$.fn.escape = function (callback) {
return this.each(function () {
$(document).on("keydown", this, function (e) {
var keycode = ((typeof e.keyCode !='undefined' && e.keyCode) ? e.keyCode : e.which);
if (keycode === 27) {
callback.call(this, e);
};
});
});
};
EXAMPLE:
$("#my-div").escape(function () {
alert('Escape!');
})
On Firefox 78 use this ("keypress" doesn't work for Escape key):
function keyPress (e)(){
if (e.key == "Escape"){
//do something here
}
document.addEventListener("keyup", keyPress);
i think the simplest way is vanilla javascript:
document.onkeyup = function(event) {
if (event.keyCode === 27){
//do something here
}
}
Updated: Changed key => keyCode
Related
I want to hide the "suggested" options list that appears underneath the search input when you start typing something on the Wordpress search plugin, what I need specifically is to fire the "Escape" key event when I press down the "Delete" key, I tried the following jquery function but it doesn't work as I expected.
$('form.search-form').keydown(function (e) {
// keycode for Delete key
if (e.keyCode == 46) {
var a = $.Event("keydown");
// keycode for Esc key
a.which = 27;
a.keyCode = 27;
$(document).trigger(a);
}});
Any help? Thanks in advance
Updated (original question was unclear)
Live demo here (click).
When the delete key is pressed, change the keyCode to the esc key, then use trigger to simulate a press of esc.
$('input').keydown(function (e) {
// keycode for delete
if (e.keyCode == 46) {
console.log('delete key pressed.');
e.keyCode = 27;
$(this.target).trigger(e);
}
});
$('input').keydown(function (e) {
// keycode for esc
if (e.keyCode == 27) {
console.log('esc key pressed.');
}
});
Old answer (leaving this here because it is similar.)
Your question is an X/Y problem. You don't need to fire another keydown, event, you just need to repeat the same functionality, so extract the esc event's code into a function and reuse in the del key's event. Live demo here (click).
$('input').keydown(function (e) {
// keycode for delete
if (e.keyCode == 46) {
myFunction(e);
}
});
$('input').keydown(function (e) {
// keycode for esc
if (e.keyCode == 27) {
myFunction(e);
}
});
function myFunction() {
alert('Look, Ma! Code reuse!');
}
Better yet, do this! Live demo here (click).
$('input').keydown(function (e) {
// keycodes for delete and esc
if (e.keyCode == 46 || e.keyCode == 27) {
myFunction(e);
}
});
function myFunction() {
alert('Look, Ma! Code optimization!');
}
I'm trying to do a function if enter is pressed while on specific input.
What I'm I doing wrong?
$(document).keyup(function (e) {
if ($(".input1").is(":focus") && (e.keyCode == 13)) {
// Do something
}
});
Is there a better way of doing this which would say, if enter pressed on .input1 do function?
$(".input1").on('keyup', function (e) {
if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.keyCode === 13) {
// Do something
}
});
// e.key is the modern way of detecting keys
// e.keyCode is deprecated (left here for for legacy browsers support)
// keyup is not compatible with Jquery select(), Keydown is.
event.key === "Enter"
More recent and much cleaner: use event.key. No more arbitrary number codes!
NOTE: The old properties (.keyCode and .which) are Deprecated.
const node = document.getElementsByClassName("input1")[0];
node.addEventListener("keyup", function(event) {
if (event.key === "Enter") {
// Do work
}
});
Modern style, with lambda and destructuring
node.addEventListener("keyup", ({key}) => {
if (key === "Enter") {
// Do work
}
})
If you must use jQuery:
$(document).keyup(function(event) {
if ($(".input1").is(":focus") && event.key == "Enter") {
// Do work
}
});
Mozilla Docs
Supported Browsers
$(document).keyup(function (e) {
if ($(".input1:focus") && (e.keyCode === 13)) {
alert('ya!')
}
});
Or just bind to the input itself
$('.input1').keyup(function (e) {
if (e.keyCode === 13) {
alert('ya!')
}
});
To figure out which keyCode you need, use the website http://keycode.info
Try this to detect the Enter key pressed in a textbox.
$(function(){
$(".input1").keyup(function (e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
// Enter key pressed
}
});
});
The best way I found is using keydown ( the keyup doesn't work well for me).
Note: I also disabled the form submit because usually when you like to do some actions when pressing Enter Key the only think you do not like is to submit the form :)
$('input').keydown( function( event ) {
if ( event.which === 13 ) {
// Do something
// Disable sending the related form
event.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
It may be too late to answer this question. But the following code simply prevents the enter key. Just copy and paste should work.
<script type="text/javascript">
function stopRKey(evt) {
var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
var node = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? evt.srcElement : null);
if ((evt.keyCode == 13) && (node.type=="text")) {return false;}
}
document.onkeypress = stopRKey;
</script>
The solution that work for me is the following
$("#element").addEventListener("keyup", function(event) {
if (event.key === "Enter") {
// do something
}
});
Try this to detect the Enter key pressed in a textbox.
$(document).on("keypress", "input", function(e){
if(e.which == 13){
alert("Enter key pressed");
}
});
DEMO
A solution that worked for me is this:
<input onkeydown="if (event.key == 'Enter'){//do logic}else{}">
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".input1").keyup(function (e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13) {
// Do something
}
});
});
This code handled every input for me in the whole site. It checks for the ENTER KEY inside an INPUT field and doesn't stop on TEXTAREA or other places.
$(document).on("keydown", "input", function(e){
if(e.which == 13){
event.preventDefault();
return false;
}
});
Here is what I did for my angular project:
HTML:
<input
class="form-control"
[(ngModel)]="searchFirstName"
(keyup)="keyUpEnter($event)"
/>
TypeScript:
keyUpEnter(event: KeyboardEvent) {
if (event.key == 'Enter') {
console.log(event);
}
}
For whatever reason I can't capture "SHIFT+TAB" combination.
I am using the latest jQuery.
Same result if I use other ajax/javascript, etc.
Here is a simple example that should work as I currently understand it...
event.which or event.KeyCode are always "undefined" only shiftKey exists in a scenario involving a "SHIFT+TAB" or backward keyboard traversal, traditionally inherent in windows based apps/web or otherwise...
function ShiftTab()
{
debugger;
if(event.KeyCode == 9 && event.shiftKey) // neither this line nor the following work
// if (event.which == 9 && event.shiftKey) // shift + tab, traverse backwards, using keyboard
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
this seems to be yet another item related to tab order that no longer works as it traditionally worked in Microsoft.Net WinForm/WebForm based apps.
If you are using jQuery, this should be how the code is working. Make sure keyCode is lower case. Also, jQuery normalizes keyCode into which:
$(document).keyup(function (e) {
if (e.which === 9 && e.shiftKey) {
ShiftTab();
}
});
If you're into terse JavaScript:
$(document).keyup(function (e) {
e.which === 9 && e.shiftKey && ShiftTab();
});
jQuery 1.7+ on syntax:
$(document).on('keyup', function (e) {
e.which === 9 && e.shiftKey && ShiftTab();
});
I created a function which I wired up to my button's onkeydown event. I used onkeydown, because onkeypress would not capture my tab key press
function ShiftTab(evt) {
var e = event || evt; // for trans-browser compatibility
var charCode = e.which || e.keyCode; // for trans-browser compatibility
if (charCode === 9) {
if (e.shiftKey) {
$('#controlName').focus();
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
I took this approach to deal with two specific problems:
onkeypress would not capture tab key press
When click shift-tab, shift key press would trigger function, so I had nest the shiftkey modifier check
use same code inside keypress event.
the tab changes the element between keypress and keyup.
here we get event.key = tab and event.shiftKey = true.
How can I cancel the keydown of a specific key on the keyboard, for example(space, enter and arrows) in an HTML page.
If you're only interested in the example keys you mentioned, the keydown event will do, except for older, pre-Blink versions of Opera (up to and including version 12, at least) where you'll need to cancel the keypress event. It's much easier to reliably identify non-printable keys in the keydown event than the keypress event, so the following uses a variable to set in the keydown handler to tell the keypress handler whether or not to suppress the default behaviour.
Example code using addEventListener and ignoring ancient version of Opera
document.addEventListener("keydown", function(evt) {
// These days, you might want to use evt.key instead of keyCode
if (/^(13|32|37|38|39|40)$/.test("" + evt.keyCode)) {
evt.preventDefault();
}
}, false);
Original example code from 2010
var cancelKeypress = false;
document.onkeydown = function(evt) {
evt = evt || window.event;
cancelKeypress = /^(13|32|37|38|39|40)$/.test("" + evt.keyCode);
if (cancelKeypress) {
return false;
}
};
/* For pre-Blink Opera */
document.onkeypress = function(evt) {
if (cancelKeypress) {
return false;
}
};
Catch the keydown event and return false. It should be in the lines of:
<script>
document.onkeydown = function(e){
var n = (window.Event) ? e.which : e.keyCode;
if(n==38 || n==40) return false;
}
</script>
(seen here)
The keycodes are defined here
edit: update my answer to work in IE
This is certainly very old thread.
In order to do the magic with IE10 and FireFox 29.0.1 you definitely must do this inside of keypress (not keydown) event listener function:
if (e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault();
jQuery has a nice KeyPress function which allows you to detect a key press, then it should be just a case of detecting the keyvalue and performing an if for the ones you want to ignore.
edit:
for example:
$('#target').keypress(function(event) {
if (event.keyCode == '13') {
return false; // or event.preventDefault();
}
});
Just return false. Beware that on Opera this doesn't work. You might want to use onkeyup instead and check the last entered character and deal with it.
Or better of use JQuery KeyPress
I only develop for IE because my works requires it, so there is my code for numeric field, not a beauty but works just fine
$(document).ready(function () {
$("input[class='numeric-field']").keydown(function (e) {
if (e.shiftKey == 1) {
return false
}
var code = e.which;
var key;
key = String.fromCharCode(code);
//Keyboard numbers
if (code >= 48 && code <= 57) {
return key;
} //Keypad numbers
else if (code >= 96 && code <= 105) {
return key
} //Negative sign
else if (code == 189 || code == 109) {
var inputID = this.id;
var position = document.getElementById(inputID).selectionStart
if (position == 0) {
return key
}
else {
e.preventDefault()
}
}// Decimal point
else if (code == 110 || code == 190) {
var inputID = this.id;
var position = document.getElementById(inputID).selectionStart
if (position == 0) {
e.preventDefault()
}
else {
return key;
}
}// 37 (Left Arrow), 39 (Right Arrow), 8 (Backspace) , 46 (Delete), 36 (Home), 35 (End)
else if (code == 37 || code == 39 || code == 8 || code == 46 || code == 35 || code == 36) {
return key
}
else {
e.preventDefault()
}
});
});
I am using this code snippet to add KeyDown event handler to any element in the html form
for(var i=0;i<ele.length;i++)
{
ele[i].onkeydown = function()
{
alert('onkeydown');
}
}
How can I know which key has been pressed on keydown event? I try this
for(var i=0;i<ele.length;i++)
{
ele[i].onkeydown = function(e)
{
alert(e.KeyCode);
}
}
but it is not working, why?
Thanks a lot
This is the code I use for this problem. It works in every browser.
//handle "keypress" for all "real characters"
if (event.type == "keydown") {
//some browsers support evt.charCode, some only evt.keyCode
if (event.charCode) {
var charCode = event.charCode;
}
else {
var charCode = event.keyCode;
}
}
For detecting Enter, you could use the following code, which will work in all mainstream browsers. It uses the keypress event rather than keydown because Enter produces a printable character:
ele[i].onkeypress = function(evt) {
evt = evt || window.event;
var charCode = evt.keyCode || evt.which;
if (charCode == 13) {
alert("Enter");
// Do stuff here
}
};
I used this:
function check(){
if (event.keyCode == 32){
alert("Space is pressed");
}
}
and in my body tag: onKeyPress="check()"
It is keyCode, not KeyCode.