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Cancel the keydown in HTML.

Hello, How can I cancel the keydown of a specific key on the keyboard, for example(space, enter and arrows) in an HTML page. Thanks ...

Can jQuery dynamically change a "username" field based on a "name" field?

Hi all, basically I have two input fields, "name" and "username". The idea is that the "username" field will change depending on what is entered into the "name" field - dynamically. I also need the username field to be in lowercase only and to change spaces into dashes. I was thinking using onkeydown but I couldn't get it to do anythin...

KeyDown event - how to easily know if the key pressed is numeric?

Hello, I am currently handling the KeyDown event of a DataGridView control. One of the columns is filled by calculated values and I want the user to be able to override the cell value if they want. When the user presses a numeric key, the cell goes into EditMode and allows the user to override the value. If the key is not numeric, noth...

How do I capture the backspace key in IE8 with jquery?

I've got a simple javascript keydown event coded via jquery. The event should just alert the key that is "down." This works for most keys but not the backspace key in Internet Explorer. I read that IE messes this up on the keypress event but was supposed to work for the keydown and keyup events. Is there anything I can do via jquery to ...

VB2010 - KeyDown Events Not Executing

I have a pong type of game and I want the spacebar to pause the game... Here is my code to detect when the space bar is pressed. Private Sub PongMain_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown If e.KeyValue = Keys.Space Then Application.Exit() End If E...

Cycle Focus to First Form Element from Last Element & Vice Versa

Hello everyone, I have created a form with malsup's Form Plugin wherein it submits on change of the inputs. I have set up my jQuery script to index drop down menus and visible inputs, and uses that index to determine whether keydown of tab should move focus to the next element or the first element, and likewise with shift+tab keydown. H...

How can I programmatically generate keyDown events in Silverlight?

I have 2 textBoxes. First is visible the second is not. When keyDown event fires on first textBox I want to fire the same event on 2nd textBox, so it would react same as if user was typing in 2nd textBox. How can I do that? EDIT: I know you can do this in Windows.Forums and I was hoping that it can be done here too. My goal is to ha...

Keydown event : numpad +,*/ buttons

How can I get VB.net to work out that i have pressed +-*/ in Keydown events? At the moment i am using a Select Case: Select Case e.Key 'Numpad Numbers Keydown Events' Case Key.NumPad0 Display.Append("0") txtAnswer.Text = Display.ToString Case Key.NumPad1 ...

How do I stop a keydown event interfering with form fields?

I've bound some events to happen on left and right arrow key press like so: $(document).keydown(function(e) { switch(e.which) { case 39: $("#next").trigger('click'); break; case 37: $("#prev").trigger('click'); break; } }); However, obviously if you are in a form and press left an...

Problem with OnKeyDown in Delphi

Hello friends, I am working with Delphi. I want to track on which key is pressed. I am using KeyDown event of TForm. It is working fine but the problem is that, if I press and lower case letter, though it gives me upper case of that letter. How can I recognize the key pressed is lower case or upper case? ...

How to handle shift+back in a derived datagridview?

Does anyone know how to handle shift+back in a derived datagridview? I can catch shift+enter in processdatagridviewkey and shift in processdialogkey but never shift+back. Thanks, Adam ...

[Jquery] -- Adding a keydown event to a HTMLUListElement

I have a unordered list of items. When it prints to the console, it shows up as a "HTMLUListElement". Can I register jquery's keydown event to this element of the page? Right now it's seems? to be working as if I keep that function in there, the page eventually will crash (Chrome says it's unresponsive). ...

.Net MDIForm eating usercontrol keydown events

Hi Guys, I wonder if any one has experienced the following issue and can give me some pointers. We have an MID form with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete child menu items of a menuItem called Edit. Each of these child menu items has the ShortcutKeys property set with CTRL+X, CTRL+C, CTL+V, and Del, respectively. The short cut key and combi...

KeyDown event does not fire for 'enter' in AutoCompleteBox

I am using a Silverlight usercontrol in my ASP.NET web app. The user control has several autocomplete boxes and it seems that the enter key never fires the keydown event in any of them while it fires for other keys. I'm assuming that autocomplete boxes must handle the enter key in a different way, perhaps for chosing an item from the li...

Invoke KeyDown on WPF Control?

I have two entirely uncoupled WPF windows, however, if something particular is happening in window 1, I do want to invoke or 'simulate' a Key.Up/.Down on a control on the 2nd window. Is that possible? ...

jQuery kepress detection on left, right arrows and space bar

I'm trying to use a little jQuery here to detect which keys are being pressed. I've a lot about trying to use functions to detect ASCII codes and such to see which keys are being pressed, but I'm a little confused. Also, what's the difference between keyUp, keyDown and keypress? ...

JavaScript/jQuery: Keypress for keyboard navigation (event.which doesn't work)

When handling key[Up|Down|Press] events, should I use .which or .keyCode? Can I have some example code for handling the three keyboard events in jQuery? Can you do it without jQuery? I want it to work reliably in every browser. Update Strangely, jQuery's event.which normalization wasn't working for my handleKeyPress(event) handler: //...

Adobe Reader plugin eating certain keydown events only in Firefox 3.6

I seem to have exactly the same problem as this person: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618752 He also has example code that purports to demonstrate the problem. Basically, I have a webpage consisting of 2 frames: in the right hand frame, a PDF, which my users all view in Adobe Reader (generally 9.3), and a left hand frame which contains...

WPF - Build a string of pressed keys using KeyDown in ListView

I have a listview with a dozen of rows binded to xml. I'd like to have a possibility to locate and position the cursor to a certain record. For example: I have a with these ID, Name, Value: 1, Johny, Cash, USA 2, Jean-Michel, Jarre, France 3, Jeanette, , USA When I would type "Je", the SelectedRow would be positioned to ID 2. When I w...

jquery key up and down navigation through search results

I have an input box that as you type displays a div called "suggestions" and compiles it with search results, each result is displayed between p tags. You can select a result using the mouse but I would like to be able to select one using up and down keys. I have got it so far that if you press down the suggestions box appears again (I...