jQuery - override preventDefault() when click + ctrl pressed

Question

I am using preventDefault() for preventing default behavior of an an anchor button, but I want to make this button to do default behavior when clicked with keyboard ctrl button,

JS code

$('a').click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
});

HTML code

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Here is the playground: http://jsfiddle.net/sKDuA/

Answer 1

$('a').click(function(e) {
    if (!e.ctrlKey) {
        e.preventDefault();
    }
});

Other intertesting options:

• e.altKey - to check if Alt was pressed
• e.shiftKey - to check if Shift was pressed
• e.button - to distinguish between right, left of middle mouse clicks
• e.which - same as above, but also works for keyboard
• full documentation here

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One more note, as you asked about documentation so seem to be really interested ;)

It's possible to debug in jsfiddle - just put debugger in your js code and run as usual. Your browser (I use Chrome) would stop on the debugging line, and you could examine the e object in the watches: