JavaScript Forum

**gautamtrivedi** · 06-09-2006, 08:22 AM

in IE i m getting ascii/unicode using event.keyCode..

for "a" i m getting 97. and when i assign as below..

i m getting it in variable i...

event.keyCode = i - 32. then it will be converted in "A" and will be displayed in textbox.

but it is not working with firefox.... if anybody have any idea then please tell me.. i need it urgently.......

i tried with followed event methods...

event.keyCode, event.charCode, event.which........

**Christopher** · 06-09-2006, 02:32 PM

window.event is an IE-specific thing. W3C-compliant browsers (read: mostly everything but IE ;P) should pass event data to the function, just make your function accept a parameter ('e' for example). Here is an example that probably suits your needs exactly, right from QuirksMode:

Code:

function doSomething(e)
{
    if (!e) var e = window.event
    if (e.keyCode) code = e.keyCode;
    else if (e.which) code = e.which;
    
    // Use code as the keycode for all browsers
}

You can find this code snippet and more useful info at QuirksMode: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introevents.html

**gautamtrivedi** · 06-10-2006, 03:04 AM

following is the code i m running... but as per your answer its not working...

<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script language="javascript">
function doSomething(e)
{
if (!e) var e = window.event

if(e.keyCode){

code = e.keyCode;
if(code > 64 && code < 91)
e.keyCode = code - 32;

}else if(e.which){

code = e.which;
if(code > 96 && code < 122)
e.which = code - 32;

}

}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<input type="text" id="txt" name="txt" onkeyup="doSomething(event)"/>
</body>
</html>

**Christopher** · 06-10-2006, 02:22 PM

To W3C browsers, it is only information. See for an example of how to do what you want cross browser.

But I think you are going about it in a more complicated way then is necessary. You can just toUpperCase it on onkeyup and you can get almost the same effect.

Code:

<input type="text" id="txt" name="txt" onkeyup="this.value=this.value.toUpperCase()" />

**mastercomputers** · 11:47 PM

Chroder's method is probably the better way than trying to override an event, especially when those events should be read-only it's just IE seems to think they can be overriden.

Although you could use onkeyup or onblur, I would prefer changing it when focus is lost (onblur) than calling it on each keyup.

Shouldn't really matter, because your script that handles the form should convert it to uppercase anyways instead of relying on the input to be uppercase.

If you want to capture characters a more compatible way then:

Code:

var ch = (event.keyCode) ? event.keyCode : event.charCode;

event.which is a real old method which was used in Netscape and does work in Firefox, but I find charCode more compatible for all other browsers, keyCode is IE specific but a few browsers may support it too.

Events should be read-only, so you can't override them, just seems Firefox has kept it that way.

Cheers,

MC