You can capture a backspace key on the onkeydown event. Once you get the key of the pressed button, then match it with the Backspace key code. A Backspace key keycode it 8.
KeyPress event is invoked only for character (printable) keys, KeyDown event is raised for all including nonprintable such as Control, Shift, Alt, BackSpace, etc.
UPDATE:
The keypress event is fired when a key is pressed down and that key normally produces a character value
Reference.
Try keydown
instead of keypress
.
The keyboard events occur in this order: keydown
, keyup
, keypress
The problem with backspace probably is, that the browser will navigate back on keyup
and thus your page will not see the keypress
event.
The keypress
event might be different across browsers.
I created a Jsfiddle to compare keyboard events (using the JQuery shortcuts) on Chrome and Firefox. Depending on the browser you're using a keypress
event will be triggered or not -- backspace will trigger keydown/keypress/keyup
on Firefox but only keydown/keyup
on Chrome.
on Chrome
keydown/keypress/keyup
when browser registers a keyboard input (keypress
is fired)
keydown/keyup
if no keyboard input (tested with alt, shift, backspace, arrow keys)
keydown
only for tab?
on Firefox
keydown/keypress/keyup
when browser registers a keyboard input but also for backspace, arrow keys, tab (so here keypress
is fired even with no input)
keydown/keyup
for alt, shift
This shouldn't be surprising because according to https://api.jquery.com/keypress/:
Note: as the keypress event isn't covered by any official specification, the actual behavior encountered when using it may differ across browsers, browser versions, and platforms.
The use of the keypress event type is deprecated by W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-keypress)
The keypress event type is defined in this specification for reference and completeness, but this specification deprecates the use of this event type. When in editing contexts, authors can subscribe to the beforeinput event instead.
Finally, to answer your question, you should use keyup
or keydown
to detect a backspace across Firefox and Chrome.
Try it out on here:
$(".inputTxt").bind("keypress keyup keydown", function (event) {
var evtType = event.type;
var eWhich = event.which;
var echarCode = event.charCode;
var ekeyCode = event.keyCode;
switch (evtType) {
case 'keypress':
$("#log").html($("#log").html() + "<b>" + evtType + "</b>" + " keycode: " + ekeyCode + " charcode: " + echarCode + " which: " + eWhich + "<br>");
break;
case 'keyup':
$("#log").html($("#log").html() + "<b>" + evtType + "</b>" + " keycode: " + ekeyCode + " charcode: " + echarCode + " which: " + eWhich + "<p>");
break;
case 'keydown':
$("#log").html($("#log").html() + "<b>" + evtType + "</b>" + " keycode: " + ekeyCode + " charcode: " + echarCode + " which: " + eWhich + "<br>");
break;
default:
break;
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input class="inputTxt" type="text" />
<div id="log"></div>
Something I wrote up incase anyone comes across an issue with people hitting backspace while thinking they are in a form field
window.addEventListener("keydown", function(e){
/*
* keyCode: 8
* keyIdentifier: "U+0008"
*/
if(e.keyCode === 8 && document.activeElement !== 'text') {
e.preventDefault();
alert('Prevent page from going back');
}
});
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