Using Shortcut Key in Web Applications using jQuery
Introduction Download Comparing Web Applications to Windows Applications has been always a debate topic. Now, I'm trying to add one more topic in this debate. We can add Keyboard Shortcuts to our Web Application (Websites) so that when user types first letter, we will have the page behave as if the corresponding button were pressed/clicked. We need to know which key was pressed when our keyup handler gets triggered. We can inspect the event object for this. The .keyCode property of the event contains an identifier for the key that was pressed and for alphabetic keys; this identifier is the ASCII value of the uppercase letter. So we can create a map or object literal of letters and their corresponding buttons to press/click. When the user presses a key, we will see if its identifier is in the map and if so, trigger the action. Now, I'm going to add this feature to my one of the article " Example on jQuery Event Bubbling Situation ". Download the at