How to detect pressing enter on keyboard using jquery?

Question

I would like to detect whether the user has pressed enter using Jquery.

How is this possible? does it require a plugiN?

EDIT: it looks like it is the keypress command. http://docs.jquery.com/Events/keypress I wanted to know if anyone knows if there are browser issues with that command - like are there any browser compatibility issues I should know about?

Answer 1

link about this

http://www.rambeck.com/blog/2008/05/jquery-enter-tab

or

http://docs.jquery.com/Events/keypress

Answer 2

There's a keypress() event method. The Enter key's ascii number is 13 for all browsers.

Answer 3

The whole point of jQuery is that you don't have to worry about browser differences. I am pretty sure you can safely go with enter being 13 in all browsers. So with that in mind, you can do this:

$(window).keypress(function(e) {
    if(e.keyCode == 13) {
        alert('You pressed enter!');
    }
});