JavaScript Forum

**dan245** · 03-23-2005, 05:00 PM

here is my code! I want it to display that text, but it won't work. Help would be nice...

Code:

if ( event.keyCode == 32 ) { alert ('you pressed space!'); }

**Christopher** · 03-23-2005, 05:17 PM

I think you'll need to attach the code to an event. For example, in the following I attached a function to the onkeydown event:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.onkeydown = docKeyDown;

        function docKeyDown(e)
        {
            if(!e) e = window.event;

            if(e.keyCode == 32)
                alert("Pressed space!!!");
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>

Blah blah blah

</body>
</html>

**dan245** · 03-23-2005, 05:34 PM

It didn't work, I put the onkeypress="docKeyDown()" in the text area.

**dk01** · 03-23-2005, 09:52 PM

try removing the ().

-dk