jQuery Forum

Folk,

Key events differ widely across different browsers, and in

some cases, jQuery makes things worse by trying to make

them more uniform. For example, in Opera, a left-arrow is

indistinguishable from a single-quote, after jQuery has

"normalised" things.

When building an application that wants to simulate a text

editor, I needed a better solution. In particular, I want a

single interface that allows me to know when a keystroke

results in either a printable character or a special character,

and never to get those two confused with one another.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the jquery.key plugin:

http://github.com/cjheath/jquery.key

Enjoy, and if you enjoy it a lot, please throw flowers. Or

money, but I'm guessing you'll choose flowers. Pull requests

on github are also welcome.

Whomever controls the jQuery plugins list, please have at it!

Clifford Heath, Data Constellation, http://dataconstellation.com

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