Check for CapsLock ON in "onfocus" event

Question

My following code for checking whether Capslock is on or not works fine on "onkeypress" event.

But i want it for "onfocus" event. i tried replacing "onkeypress" with "onfocus" for the control,but it doesnt work for me.

Any help? (either in javascript or Jquery)

 <script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript">
    function capLock(e) {
        kc = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which;
        sk = e.shiftKey ? e.shiftKey : ((kc == 16) ? true : false);
        if (((kc >= 65 && kc <= 90) && !sk) || ((kc >= 97 && kc <= 122) && sk))
            document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'visible';
        else
            document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'hidden';
    }
</script>

<input type="text" name="txtuname" />
<input type="password" name="txtPassword" onkeypress="capLock(event)" />
<div id="divMayus" style="visibility:hidden">Caps Lock is on.</div> 

Solution 1

There is a jQuery plugin called capslockstate which will keep track of the state of the caps lock key, allowing you to use that information as and when needed.

It will monitor the state for the entire page, and then you can retrieve the state when the desired element gains focus.

It's also based on watching key presses, but not limited to lower ASCII characters and handles situations like the Caps Lock key itself being pressed.

Your situation would become something like:

<script src="{path-to}/jquery-capslockstate.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $(window).capslockstate();

        $(window).bind("capsOn", function(event) {
            if ($("#txtPassword:focus").length > 0) {
                document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'visible';
            }
        });
        $(window).bind("capsOff capsUnknown", function(event) {
            document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'hidden';
        });
        $("#txtPassword").bind("focusout", function(event) {
            document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'hidden';
        });
        $("#txtPassword").bind("focusin", function(event) {
            if ($(window).capslockstate("state") === true) {
                document.getElementById('divMayus').style.visibility = 'visible';
            }
        });
    });
</script>

<input type="text" name="txtuname" />
<input type="password" name="txtPassword" id="txtPassword" />
<div id="divMayus" style="visibility:hidden">Caps Lock is on.</div>

Note that I've only jQueryified the essential bits, more could still be done.

Solution 2

Unfortunately not - the keyCode property of the event object is only sent on key-based events (for obvious reasons), which is why it wouldn't work onfocus, onclick etc.

There aren't any other JavaScript ways of doing it - although there is a potential solution if you use flash - but that seems somewhat overkill for your requirements...

Comments

[Liam Wiltshire]

forums.adobe.com/message/3349870 - that discusses doing it with flash - having a small swf that displays a message if caps lock is on is really your only way to go.

[nosilleg]

@mondjunge that is happening because I have hot linked the is from Github. They don't want people doing that, and have added some headers to prevent it. However Firefox is the only browser currently that respects the headers. When properly hosted the script works on all browsers.

[nosilleg]

@mondjunge I've finally gotten around to fixing the demo by using a non-blocked version of the js. Thanks for reporting this, oh so long ago.