Arrow keys won't trigger keypress

Michael · Aug 6, 2005

Why does the following code give the alert in IE when most keys are
pressed, but not when the arrow keys are pressed? Both types of keys
trigger it in Netscape, but IE won't acknowledge arrow keypresses.

Please post reply here, I really appreciate the help.

<SCRIPT>

function keyboardEventHandler()
{
alert("Got it!");
}

</SCRIPT>

<BODY>
<SCRIPT>
document.onkeypress=keyboardEventHandler
</SCRIPT>
</BODY

Martin Honnen · Aug 6, 2005

Michael said:
Why does the following code give the alert in IE when most keys are
pressed, but not when the arrow keys are pressed? Both types of keys
trigger it in Netscape, but IE won't acknowledge arrow keypresses.

Check IE's documentation, it describes which keys trigger which events:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../author/dhtml/reference/events/onkeypress.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...p/author/dhtml/reference/events/onkeydown.asp>

ASM · Aug 6, 2005

Michael said:
Why does the following code give the alert in IE when most keys are
pressed, but not when the arrow keys are pressed? Both types of keys
trigger it in Netscape, but IE won't acknowledge arrow keypresses.

Please post reply here, I really appreciate the help.

try with onkeydown

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Arrow keys won't trigger keypress

Michael

Martin Honnen

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