Testing for shift or ctrl within a click event.

jhcorey

Right now I have code like this which works in IE (this fires on an
onclick):

function f_Click(x)
{

if (window.event.shiftKey)
{

I'd like to find the simplest way to make this work cross-browser. In
another post I found:

document.onkeydown = function (e) {
evt = e || event;
if (evt.shiftKey) alert('shift');
}

But
1) I haven't figured out how to return the result into a variable.
2) I notice that once this code executes, it will execute again just by
hitting the shift button, without clicking.

Thanks

Jul 23 '05 #1

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RobB

jhco...@yahoo.com wrote:

Right now I have code like this which works in IE (this fires on an
onclick):

function f_Click(x)
{

if (window.event.shiftKey)
{

I'd like to find the simplest way to make this work cross-browser. In another post I found:

document.onkeydown = function (e) {
evt = e || event;
if (evt.shiftKey) alert('shift');
}

But
1) I haven't figured out how to return the result into a variable.
2) I notice that once this code executes, it will execute again just by hitting the shift button, without clicking.

Thanks

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>untitled</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

document.onclick = function(e)
{
e = e || window.event;
if (e.shiftKey)
{
d = document;;
d.getElementById('r').appendChild(d.createTextNode ('!'));
}
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="r" style="font:64px arial;"></span>
</body>
</html>

Jul 23 '05 #2

jhcorey

Thanks, but I have the possibility of clicking in other part of the
page (this is a tree control), and enabling an event handler here
doesn't work for me, since whatever it does may happen when I click
something else.

I also tried putting the handler somewhere else, but it executes after
my f_click function, so it doesn't work for me.

The IE code seems to simply be a property. I would like something that
simple, but my next thought is to write something using onkeypress and
onkeyup to set a variable indicating if one of these keys is down.
Thanks,
Jim

Jul 23 '05 #3

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