[javascript] JavaScript for handling Tab Key press

As we know, when we click on TAB key on keyboard, it allows us to navigate through all active href links present open webpage. Is it possible to read those urls by means of JavaScript?

example:

function checkTabPress(key_val) {
    if (event.keyCode == 9) {
        // Here read the active selected link.
    }
}

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The answer is


try this

 <body>
   <div class="linkCollection">
             <a tabindex=1 href="www.demo1.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=2 href="www.demo2.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=3 href="www.demo3.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=4 href="www.demo4.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=5 href="www.demo5.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=6 href="www.demo6.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=7 href="www.demo7.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=8 href="www.demo8.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=9 href="www.demo9.com">link</a>    
             <a tabindex=10 href="www.demo10.com">link</a>   
        </div>

</body>

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".linkCollection a").focus(function(){
    var href=$(this).attr('href');
    console.log(href);
    // href variable holds the active selected link.
  });
});
</script>

don't forgot to add jQuery library

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

Having following html:

<!-- note that not all browsers focus on links when Tab is pressed -->
<a href="http://example.com">Link</a>

<input type="text" placeholder="Some input" />
<a href="http://example.com">Another Link</a>

<textarea>...</textarea>

You can get to active link with:

// event listener for keyup
function checkTabPress(e) {
    "use strict";
    // pick passed event or global event object if passed one is empty
    e = e || event;
    var activeElement;
    if (e.keyCode == 9) {
        // Here read the active selected link.
        activeElement = document.activeElement;
        // If HTML element is an anchor <a>
        if (activeElement.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'a')
            // get it's hyperlink
            alert(activeElement.href);
    }
}

var body = document.querySelector('body');
body.addEventListener('keyup', checkTabPress);

Here is working example.


Only one suggestion instead of 9 you can use KeyCodes.TAB.


Use TAB & TAB+SHIFT in a Specified container or element

Source

we will handle TAB & TAB+SHIFT key listeners first

        $(document).ready(function() {
            lastIndex = 0;
            $(document).keydown(function(e) {
                if (e.keyCode == 9) var thisTab = $(":focus").attr("tabindex");
                if (e.keyCode == 9) {
                    if (e.shiftKey) {
                        //Focus previous input
                        if (thisTab == startIndex) {
                            $("." + tabLimitInID).find('[tabindex=' + lastIndex + ']').focus();
                            return false;
                        }
                    } else {
                        if (thisTab == lastIndex) {
                            $("." + tabLimitInID).find('[tabindex=' + startIndex + ']').focus();
                            return false;
                        }
                    }
                }
            });
            var setTabindexLimit = function(x, fancyID) {
                console.log(x);
                startIndex = 1;
                lastIndex = x;
                tabLimitInID = fancyID;
                $("." + tabLimitInID).find('[tabindex=' + startIndex + ']').focus();
            }
            /*Taking last tabindex=10 */
            setTabindexLimit(10, "limitTablJolly");
        });

In HTML define tabindex

        <div class="limitTablJolly">
            <a tabindex=1>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=2>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=3>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=4>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=5>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=6>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=7>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=8>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=9>link</a>    
             <a tabindex=10>link</a>   
        </div>

Given this piece of HTML code:

<a href='https://facebook.com/'>Facebook</a>
<a href='https://google.ca/'>Google</a>
<input type='text' placeholder='an input box'>

We can use this JavaScript:

function checkTabPress(e) {
    'use strict';
    var ele = document.activeElement;

    if (e.keyCode === 9 && ele.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
        console.log(ele.href);
    }
}

document.addEventListener('keyup', function (e) {
    checkTabPress(e);
}, false);

I have bound an event listener to the document element for the keyUp event, which triggers a function to check if the Tab key was pressed (or technically, released).

The function checks the currently focused element and whether the NodeName is a. If so, it enters the if block and, in my case, writes the value of the href property to the JavaScript console.

Here's a jsFiddle


You need to use Regular Expression For Website URL it is

var urlPattern = /(http|ftp|https)://[\w-]+(.[\w-]+)+([\w.,@?^=%&:/~+#-]*[\w@?^=%&/~+#-])?/

Use this Expression as in example

var regex = new RegExp(urlPattern ); var t = 'www.google.com';
var res = t.match(regex /g);

For You have to pass your web page as string to this javascript in variable t and get array


You should be able to do this with the keyup event. To be specific, event.target should point at the selected element and event.target.href will give you the href-value of that element. See mdn for more information.

The following code is jQuery, but apart from the boilerplate code, the rest is the same in pure javascript. This is a keyup handler that is bound to every link tag.

$('a').on( 'keyup', function( e ) {
    if( e.which == 9 ) {
        console.log( e.target.href );
    }
} );

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4PqUF/