jQuery and ASP.NET

July 24, 2009

Find out which Key was pressed using jQuery




A user had a requirement to take actions on a page based on the KeyPressed. Here’s a simple script that you can do that and works cross-browser.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<
head>
<
title>Find KeyPressed</title>

<
script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<
script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(this).bind('keypress', function(e) {
var key = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.charCode);
alert(key);
});
});
</script>
</
head>
<
body>
<
div>
</
div>
</
body>
</
html>



You can also use ‘e.which’ instead of ‘e.charCode’. I have tested the code on IE7, Chrome and Firefox 3.

To do the same on an ASP.NET page, check my article over here Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery



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