JQuery on click or on submit button

Question

I currently have buttons that have accesskey='whateverKey' I have a jQuery that is ran when the document is ready. I want to be able to disable the alt key and only have it highlight the button instead of submit it. Which can be done if you put in a onClick='if(checkIfAlt())gotoPage' on every single button. is it possible to do that in a .ready? without having every button use the onClick?

I need it ran in this....

jQuery( document ).ready({ }

I have tried all of these

jQuery(document).on('button', 'form', function(event) { alert('clicked'); event.preventDefault(); }); jQuery(document).bind("keydown", function(event){ event.preventDefault(); }); $("button").click(function(evt) { if (evt.ctrlKey) alert('Ctrl down'); if (evt.altKey) alert('Alt down'); });

Some of these are out there but I was just trying a bunch of stuff trying to figure out how to get this to work. Is this possible?

Thanks a lot!!

Jay Blanchard · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-29 17:35:10Z

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To disable the alt and/or the control keys you can do this - http://jsfiddle.net/jayblanchard/uwPrV/

$('body').keydown(function(e) { if(e.keyCode == 17 || e.keyCode == 18) { e.preventDefault(); } else { console.log(e.keyCode); } });

answered Apr 29, 2014 at 17:35

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4 Comments

Justin Over a year ago

I tried this too, even replaced 'body' with document and it doesnt prevent it. I did an alert() and it does alert me but doesnt prevent the (altKey + accessKey) submitting the button.

Jay Blanchard Over a year ago

I tested this in a couple of browsers and both the alt and control keys were disabled, they did not provided anything on keydown. Can you provide a fiddle showing that these keys are not disabled when using this code?

Jay Blanchard Over a year ago

Actually it prevents the CTRL key, but shows the keydown of the 'h' key. If you are using key combo's you'll always get 2 keycodes (or more if there is a complex sequence, like CTRL + ALT + DEL). So the CTRL key is properly disabled while the 'h' key is still enabled - as it should be. Did you expect to get a different keycode back when pressing two keys? Watch the console as you press.

Jay Blanchard Over a year ago

You may to use keypress() depending on the browser. Here is more info - stackoverflow.com/questions/8269274/…

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