jQuery: How to capture the TAB keypress within a Textbox

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Edit: Since your element is dynamically inserted, you have to use delegated on() as in your example, but you should bind it to the keydown event, because as @Marc comments, in IE the keypress event doesn't capture non-character keys:

$("#parentOfTextbox").on('keydown', '#textbox', function(e) { 
  var keyCode = e.keyCode || e.which; 

  if (keyCode == 9) { 
    e.preventDefault(); 
    // call custom function here
  } 
});

Check an example here.

Working example in jQuery 1.9:

$('body').on('keydown', '#textbox', function(e) {
    if (e.which == 9) {
        e.preventDefault();
        // do your code
    }
});

$('#textbox').live('keypress', function(e) {
    if (e.keyCode === 9) {
        e.preventDefault();
        // do work
    }
});

Above shown methods did not work for me, may be i am using bit old jquery, then finally the below shown code snippet works for - posting just in case somebody in my same position

$('#textBox').live('keydown', function(e) {
    if (e.keyCode == 9) {
        e.preventDefault();
        alert('tab');
    }
});

An important part of using a key down on tab is knowing that tab will always try to do something already, don't forget to "return false" at the end.

Here is what I did. I have a function that runs on .blur and a function that swaps where my form focus is. Basically it adds an input to the end of the form and goes there while running calculations on blur.

$(this).children('input[type=text]').blur(timeEntered).keydown(function (e) {
        var code = e.keyCode || e.which;
        if (code == "9") {
            window.tabPressed = true;
            // Here is the external function you want to call, let your external
            // function handle all your custom code, then return false to
            // prevent the tab button from doing whatever it would naturally do.
            focusShift($(this));
            return false;
        } else {
            window.tabPressed = false;
        }
        // This is the code i want to execute, it might be different than yours
        function focusShift(trigger) {
            var focalPoint = false;
            if (tabPressed == true) {
                console.log($(trigger).parents("td").next("td"));
                focalPoint = $(trigger).parents("td").next("td");

            }
            if (focalPoint) {
                $(focalPoint).trigger("click");
            }
        }
    });