jQuery keypress event not firing

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I am trying to fire an event on the right and left arrow key presses with jQuery  Using the following code  I can fire events on any of the alphanumeric keys  but the cursor keys  up  down  left  right  fire nothing  I am developing the site primarily for IE users because it is a line of business app  Am I doing something wrong here      document   keypress function e       switch  e which            case 40              alert  down                break          case 38              alert  up                break          case 37              alert  left                break          case 39              alert  right                break          default              alert

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Ofcourse this is a closed issue  i would like to add something to your discussion  In mozilla i have observed a weird behaviour for this code    document  keydown function      my code        the code is being triggered twice  When debugged i found that actually there are two events getting fired   keypress  and  keydown   I disabled one of the event and the code shown me expected behavior     document  unbind  keypress      document  keydown function      my code       This works for all browsers and also there is no need to check for browser specific if   browser mozilla        Hope this might be useful for someone

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With jQuery  I ve done it this way   function checkKey e        switch  e keyCode            case 40              alert  down                break          case 38              alert  up                break          case 37              alert  left                break          case 39              alert  right                break          default              alert                                  if    browser mozilla          document  keypress  checkKey     else         document  keydown  checkKey       Also  try these plugins  which looks like they do all that work for you   http   www openjs com scripts events keyboard shortcuts  http   www webappers com 2008 07 31 bind-a-hot-key-combination-with-jquery-hotkeys

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e which doesn t work in IE try e keyCode  also you probably want to use keydown   instead of keypress   if you are targeting IE   See http   unixpapa com js key html for more information

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You have the word  document  in a string  Change       document   keypress function e     to    document  keypress function e

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You have the word  document  in a string  Change       document   keypress function e     to    document  keypress function e

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Your original code has    document      when it should have   document  without the quotes

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With jQuery  I ve done it this way   function checkKey e        switch  e keyCode            case 40              alert  down                break          case 38              alert  up                break          case 37              alert  left                break          case 39              alert  right                break          default              alert                                  if    browser mozilla          document  keypress  checkKey     else         document  keydown  checkKey       Also  try these plugins  which looks like they do all that work for you   http   www openjs com scripts events keyboard shortcuts  http   www webappers com 2008 07 31 bind-a-hot-key-combination-with-jquery-hotkeys

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Your original code has    document      when it should have   document  without the quotes

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e which doesn t work in IE try e keyCode  also you probably want to use keydown   instead of keypress   if you are targeting IE   See http   unixpapa com js key html for more information

User · Answer

With jQuery  I ve done it this way   function checkKey e        switch  e keyCode            case 40              alert  down                break          case 38              alert  up                break          case 37              alert  left                break          case 39              alert  right                break          default              alert                                  if    browser mozilla          document  keypress  checkKey     else         document  keydown  checkKey       Also  try these plugins  which looks like they do all that work for you   http   www openjs com scripts events keyboard shortcuts  http   www webappers com 2008 07 31 bind-a-hot-key-combination-with-jquery-hotkeys

User · Answer

Ofcourse this is a closed issue  i would like to add something to your discussion  In mozilla i have observed a weird behaviour for this code    document  keydown function      my code        the code is being triggered twice  When debugged i found that actually there are two events getting fired   keypress  and  keydown   I disabled one of the event and the code shown me expected behavior     document  unbind  keypress      document  keydown function      my code       This works for all browsers and also there is no need to check for browser specific if   browser mozilla        Hope this might be useful for someone

User · Answer

e which doesn t work in IE try e keyCode  also you probably want to use keydown   instead of keypress   if you are targeting IE   See http   unixpapa com js key html for more information

User · Answer

With jQuery  I ve done it this way   function checkKey e        switch  e keyCode            case 40              alert  down                break          case 38              alert  up                break          case 37              alert  left                break          case 39              alert  right                break          default              alert                                  if    browser mozilla          document  keypress  checkKey     else         document  keydown  checkKey       Also  try these plugins  which looks like they do all that work for you   http   www openjs com scripts events keyboard shortcuts  http   www webappers com 2008 07 31 bind-a-hot-key-combination-with-jquery-hotkeys

User · Answer

e which doesn t work in IE try e keyCode  also you probably want to use keydown   instead of keypress   if you are targeting IE   See http   unixpapa com js key html for more information

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