firefox enter key 1

[raicha]

Hello everyone,
I am very new to this forum as well as to javascript. I have following code for enter key event on my page. its working in all browsers except firefox. I have searched online a lot but nothing has worked and finally I have thought to get some help from the experts.

<script>
function checkKey()
{
if (window.event.keyCode == 13)
{
loadUrl();
}
return true;
}
</script>


onkeydown="checkKey();return true;"

any help is much appreciated.

Thank you.

Kind Regards.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Had you read Peter-Paul Koch's article, Detecting keystrokes ? I would start with the test code used on that page.

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[vacunita]

2 things to be aware of.

1. Firefox does not handle the window.event object implicitly like other browsers.
2. Always check the browsers Error Console. when coding, it will show you any errors you may have n your JS code. It would have shown that window.event is undefined.

To make it work for firefox, you need to explicitly send the event object into the function.

onkeydown="checkKey([red][b]event[/b][/red]);return true;"

And then use it inside:

function checkKey([red][b]e[/b][/red])
{
 //check if window.event exists
 if(window.event)
 {
   if (window.event.keyCode == 13)
   {
     loadUrl();
   }
 }
 // if it doesn't use firefox code
 else
 {
   if(e.keyCode == 13)
   {
     //do stuff
   }
 }
return true;
}

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[raicha]

Thank you vacunita. your suggestion is really helpful. Your code is working like a charm. Thank you very much. I really really appreciate it.

Kind Regards,
Amit Raichandani.

 

[feherke]

Hi

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