What is the key pressed in the "onkeypressed" event ????

[Caliban]

Hi y'all JS gurues :)

Is there a way to know what was the key pressed, in the "onkeypressed" event ????

TIA

[gil davis]

In IE: event.keyCode.
In Netscape: event.which.

if(document.layers) document.captureEvents(Event.KEYPRESS);

document.onkeypress = myKeyPress;

function myKeyPress(evt) {
if(document.all)
{alert(event.keyCode);}
else
{alert(evt.which + ", " + evt.modifiers);
return false;
}

It is a real pain to get modifiers in IE. Each modifier is a boolean in the event. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_event.asp for details.