.keypress on a DIV tag?

javascript jquery jquery-ui jquery-selectors jquery-events

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Yes: you need to add a tabindex attribute to the <div> to allow it to receive the focus.

<div id="idtext" tabindex="1"></div>

Also, the property you want for the character code of the text entered in a keypress event is which, not keyCode.

Finally, the HTML comment tags inside the <script> element are unnecessary in all modern browsers.

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Author by

xRobot

Updated on July 22, 2022

Comments

xRobot almost 2 years

Is there a way to get work .keypress on a div element like this?:

<html>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

$('#idtext').keypress(function(event) {
  var keyCode = event.keyCode;
  $('#idtext').text(function(i, text) {

   return text + String.fromCharCode(keyCode); 

  });

});

// -->
</script>

<div id="idtext"></div>

</body>
</html>

Tim Down over 13 years

The example is way too complicated to say that it's my suggestion that's not working. Simplified: jsbin.com/aqiza/7
jcubic over 13 years

@xRobot you have mistake change $('#cmd span'); to $('#cmd div#mytext'); see jsbin.com/aqiza/13
SasQ over 12 years

Many thanks for the tabindex trick. I'd never figure it out.