Onkeypress

kewley

10-12-2006, 12:31 AM

I am trying to figure out how to display an alert box when the user presses the "h" key? Can anybody help me out?

warhammerdude20

10-12-2006, 01:07 AM

Philip M

10-12-2006, 08:10 AM

Sure thing...

I dont know what your trying to do but id use onKeyDown instead of onKeyPress, but its your call.

ok in the body tag you go like this

<body onKeyPress="if(window.event.keyCode==72)alert('you pressed H');" >

I dont know how good you are with javascript but the keyCode for "H" is 72

hope that helps

ASCII keyCode 72 is H upper case. Lower case h is keyCode 104.

So: <body onKeyPress="if (window.event.keyCode == 72 || window.event.keyCode == 104) alert ('You pressed h or H');" >

liorean

10-12-2006, 02:12 PM

If you want it to work in other browsers than Internet Explorer:

<body onkeypress="var k=event.keyCode||event.charCode||event.which;if(k==72||k==104)alert('you pressed H or h');return false;">