mennovanslooten / jquery.specialkeys.js

A jQuery plugin to make keyboard event handling for special keys (enter, space, up, down, etc) a breeze.

jquery.specialkeys.js

What is this?

It's a plugin for jQuery that extends the standard events so you can do this:

$('.some-selector').on('enterkey', function(e) {
    // the user pressed the enter key
});

or even this:

$('.some-selector').on('shift_downkey', function(e) {
    // the user pressed shift+down
});

Demo

A demo can be found here: http://mennovanslooten.github.com/jquery.specialkeys.js/test.html

The following new key names have supported events (both [name]key as well as shift_[name]key):

• backspace
• delete
• left
• up
• right
• down
• tab
• enter
• space
• escape
• esc