jQuery comes with three keyboard events to capture the keyboard activities – keyup(), keydown() and keypress(). keyup() – Fire when user releases a key on the keyboard. keydown() – Fire when user presses a key on the keyboard. keypress() – Fire when user presses a key on the keyboard. In general statement, the keydown() is […]
To detect copy, paste and cut behavior, you just need to bind the corresponding event type. $("#textA").bind(‘copy’, function() { $(‘span’).text(‘copy behaviour detected!’) }); $("#textA").bind(‘paste’, function() { $(‘span’).text(‘paste behaviour detected!’) }); $("#textA").bind(‘cut’, function() { $(‘span’).text(‘cut behaviour detected!’) }); If you are using jQuery 1.4x, it’s support the multiple events declaration like following : $("#textA").bind({ copy : […]
The “enter” key is represent by code “13”, check this ASCII charts. To check if an “enter” key is pressed inside a textbox, just bind the keypress() to the textbox. $(‘#textbox’).keypress(function(event){ var keycode = (event.keyCode ? event.keyCode : event.which); if(keycode == ’13’){ alert(‘You pressed a "enter" key in textbox’); } }); To check if an […]