Enter Key not firing in Firefox

[yellowdog]

Hi.

I have an .aspx page that I'm trying to get to fire some Javascript on an Enter Key press inside a text box in a Firefox browser.

Here is the .aspx/html code:

<input type="text" runat="server" id="tbSearch" onkeypress="jav ascript:SearchE nter();">

And here is the java it's trying to fire:

function SearchEnter()
{

if ( (window.event && window.event.ke yCode == 13) || (window.event.c harCode == 13))
{
alert("SearchEn ter");
SubmitSearch();
}
}

The alert message never appears.

Of course this works fine in IE, just not Firefox.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

yd

[Banfa]

window.event (the event member of the window object) does not exist in Firefox (or any Mozilla implementation) .

Unfortunately while a lot of things to do with web standards and programming have been standardised events are not one of them .

If order to capture both the Mozilla and IE event objects I think you need to change your SearchEnter function like so

function SerachEnter(e)
{
	if (!e) var e = window.event
	// e refers to the event

	/* Rest of code here */
}

you may also need to change your html to

[html]
<input type="text" runat="server" id="tbSearch" onkeypress="Sea rchEnter(event) ;">
[/html]

[syedfasih]

use e.which rathre than e.keyCode this will solve your problem :)

[dmjpro]

if window.event does not support use window.evt

[acoder]

Syed is right, for browsers which do not support keyCode, use e.which.

For information on events and browser compatibility, see the following links:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_events.html