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Re: What's wrong with keyCode and String.fromCharCode
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 18:51:44 CET
Pugi! wrote:
> It is example of adding an eventlistener to a textarea. The events works
> alright, but when I press 'a' the alert gives me 'A', when I press '8' I get
> 'h', when I press '0' I get ''', when I press 'à' I get '0', ....
> Has probably something to do with the fact that I don't live in the UK or
> USA. But it shouldn't matter; a key is a key.
No it's not ;-) Do not mix keyboard *scancodes* with *keycode*.
Scancode is the system value assigned to each key on your keyboard.
This value is indead layout-independent. Keycode is Unicode value going
to receiver: it depends on current layout, shift state etc.
In your particular case though it may help to monitor 'okeypress'
instead of 'onkeydown' as you're doing right now.
Received on Mon May 1 03:39:53 2006