Comments on: JavaScript Keyboard Controls: js-hotkeys

By: brian

brian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:33:48 +0000

You need to trigger a function within the keydown keypress or keyup events.

By: Tailor

Tailor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:14:43 +0000

Does anyone know how i can use this functionality and sends a user to a link?

By: Edwin

Edwin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:56:18 +0000

This is really awasome! Like it very much! Thnx

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:03 +0000

Actually Apple keys are not handled correctly. Hitting Cmd+C return the C key as Cmd isn’t a matching key.

Apple ASCII values seems to change for webbrowsers, and I’m not able to found a valuable map of this (except here http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html but it’s almost incomplete).

Tonight I will make and host a web app which will return the ASCII key received on a keystroke. So we would be able to find each value for each command on each webbrowser.

Never the less, i’ve been able to modify the jQuery plugin to handles the Cmd key (ASCII 224). This works fine, but composed Cmd keystrokes seems to send different ASCII value.

Hope it helps,

cheers

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:18:00 +0000

@Seb,

Im not sure about that (I’m not using a Mac right now) but would be great if you can test it through the demo and share the results.

By: Seb

Seb — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:58:29 +0000

Ctrl+C it’s cool, but what about Cmd+C ?

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:55:45 +0000

@Binny,

Thanks for the info. I’ve updated the post to include shortcut.js.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:21:56 +0000

This can be used without jQuery - try the base script for this plugin.