Keypress: The keypress event is sent to an element when the browser registers keyboard input. This is similar to the keydown event, except in the case of key repeats. If the user presses and holds a key, a keydown event is triggered once, but separate keypress events are triggered for each inserted character. In addition, … Read more
jQuery already handles that. To check if control was pressed you should use: $(window).keydown(function (e){ if (e.ctrlKey) alert(“control”); }); The list of modifier keys: e.ctrlKey e.altKey e.shiftKey And as fudgey suggested: e.metaKey Might work on MAC. Some other ways here as well.
Another approach (no plugin needed) is to just use .ctrlKey property of the event object that gets passed in. It indicates if Ctrl was pressed at the time of the event, like this: $(document).keypress(“c”,function(e) { if(e.ctrlKey) alert(“Ctrl+C was pressed!!”); });
Update 2017 As pointed out by @Wallop in the comments, the nav-index property was dropped from the spec in 2015 due to “lack of implementation interest”. Take a look at the nav-index property introduced by W3C in CSS3-UI. This property has exactly the same behavior as a tabindex and is applicable to any element. The … Read more
If you are okay with a minimum requirement of OS X 10.6+, and can suffice with “read-only” access to the stream of events, you can install a global event monitor in Cocoa: Cocoa Event-Handling Guide: Monitoring Events. If you need to support OS X 10.5 and earlier, and read-only access is okay, and don’t mind … Read more
The keyPress event is what you need to get which character was entered. (See below workaround for keydown event). keydown and keyup provide a code indicating which key is pressed, while keypress indicates which character was entered. Using jQuery e.which you can get the key code and using String.fromCharCode you can get the specific character … Read more
I was having the exact same problem. I considered the answer @Snarfblam provided; however, if you read the documentation on MSDN, the ProcessCMDKey method is meant to override key events for menu items in an application. I recently stumbled across this article from microsoft, which looks quite promising: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.previewkeydown.aspx. According to microsoft, the best thing … Read more
You should use tabIndex attribute to be able to listen onKeyDown event on a div in React. Setting tabIndex=”0″ should fire your handler.
Note: keyCode is now deprecated. Multiple keystroke detection is easy if you understand the concept The way I do it is like this: var map = {}; // You could also use an array onkeydown = onkeyup = function(e){ e = e || event; // to deal with IE map[e.keyCode] = e.type == ‘keydown’; /* … Read more