Call Event on Pressing Enter Key...

Hi,

I have a textfield which asks for an email address. I want a popup to open as soon as the user clicks on enter in the textfield. onClick ofcourse wont work cause the popup pops up even when i focus on the textfield to enter the email address. Any solution, maybe an event like onEnter???

thanks
Neville

Instead of enter, you might want to use onBlur. This way, if the user presses tab, or clicks somewhere else on the page, your function will still be called.


Pressing enter in a FORM is often similar to submitting.
You may want to use onSubmit (on the FORM tag)... depends on your ultimate goal.

Hi,

You can use onkeydown attribute to fetch the event and check it in a script that I've written down below.

You can find a list of key codes and a runnins sample script how to find key codes can be found at http://www.kodyaz.com/content/HowToGetKeyCodesList.aspx


I hope it helps.

<script>
function PopUpEmail(e){

if(e){
e = e
} else {
e = window.event
}

if(e.which){
var keycode = e.which
} else {
var keycode = e.keyCode
}

if(keycode == 13) {
alert("Open your Popup Screen")
}
}
</script>

<input type=text name=email onkeydown="PopUpEmail(event)">


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