I have a requirement to produce a Web User Control (in C#) which will exhibit different behaviour when clicked depending on whether the shift (or control) key is pressed at the time. The control itself will contain an ImageButton and/or Hyperlink.
Is this possible?
Basically, if the logged in user is an Admin then I need to allow them access to update the associated URL. I don't want to have a separate page for this admin as it will cause confusion.
Thanks in advance
How about here?
"To implement the Ctrl / Alt / Shift detection, you can use the properties event.ctrlKey, event.altKey, event.shiftKey and the deprecated Navigator-specific property event.modifiers."
Your control needs to emit some javascript to detect what keys are being pressed when it is clicked on.
Here is a primer from w3schools on events, here is a list of events of the window object you can listen to (such as onkeydown for keyboard presses).
I'd discourage this as it will get you into serious trouble with different browser versions.
As long as you aren't targeting one browser explicitly you'll be doing maintenance work for various browsers all the time.
A way around this is to find a supported Javascript library like jQuery that supports this behavior and let the maintainers of that library care about browser compatibility (You still need to update that library then..)
Well the 'powers' have decided that the Shift/Ctrl + Click approach was too clunky.
After a brainstorming session we have decided to go down the route of displaying a small 'Edit' button next to the control. This will only be visible for Administrator users and I've pulled it together in about two hours.
Thanks for taking the time to provide your input.
Can someone with a high rep please close this question for me - thanks.