Thanks a lot especially to your second post. :) cheers james
On May 22, 11:59 am, "Richard Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/21/07, Richard Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 5/21/07, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a difference between to two? Any guidelines on which one to > > > use on a certion situation? > > > There are three javascript events that can fire when a key is pressed: > > > keydown > > keyup > > keypress > > > Here's a great reference for figuring out what happens on each one > > depending on what key you're looking at/for: > > >http://www.quirksmode.org/js/keys.html > > > Generally keydown is needed to capture special keys (Ctrl, Alt, Caps, > > Arrows) that don't fire keypress, and sometimes to prevent the normal > > behavior of a keypress/combination (by returning false or stopping > > propagation). Ex: prevent enter from adding a newline in a textarea or > > editable div. > > > - Richard D. Worth > > Also, when you hold down a key for repeating, keypress fires for each > repeat. So, given the following code: > > $('textarea').keydown(function(){$('body').append('keydown<br>');}); > $('textarea').keypress(function(){$('body').append('keypress<br>');}); > $('textarea').keyup(function(){$('body').append('keyup<br>');}); > > if you are in a textarea and hold down the 'a' key and type: aaaaaa, you'll > get this output: > > keydown > keypress > keypress > keypress > keypress > keypress > keypress > keyup > > - Richard D. Worth
