Capturing "Delete" Keypress with jQuery

Question

Hello,

When using the example code from the jQuery documentation for the keypress event handler, I'm unable to capture the "Delete" key. The snippet below is going to log "0" when the Delete key is pressed in FireFox:

$(document).keypress(function(e) {
 console.log(e.which);  
});

Seems there's gotta be a way to capture the delete key, but it's an ambiguous term so Google isn't proving to be much help with it.

Thanks Guys!

Answer 1

You shouldn't use the keypress event, but the keyup or keydown event because the keypress event is intented for real (printable) characters. "keydown" is handled at a lower level so it will capture all non-printing keys like DEL and ENTER