How to trap the Keyboard(key) value

[raghavan]

How to Find what key is pressed by the user.

[Michael Hildner]

I'm definately no JavaScript expert, but I needed to do something similar, that is, do something when the enter key was pressed. I found some code on the web and tweaked it. Anyway this code does something when enter is pressed, and works in NS and IE.

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
<!--
    IE4 = (document.all);
    NS4 = (document.layers);
    
    if (NS4) document.captureEvents(Event.KEYPRESS);
    document.onkeypress = doKey;
    
function doKey(e)
{
    whichASC = (NS4) ? e.which : event.keyCode;
    if (whichASC == 13)    
    {
        addSymbol(document.forms.editsymbols);
        return false;
    }
}

[Randall Twede]

raghaven,
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