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Bharanikumar
Bharanikumar

Reputation: 25733

Short cut key to open pages

i have 5 links in my home page ,

linkabc linkdef linkghi linkjkl linkmno

when i click the CTRL+b to open the linkabc page ,

When i click the CTRL+e to open the linkdef page like wise,

How to do this functionality with few snnipet ,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 315

Answers (4)

TopDeveloper
TopDeveloper

Reputation: 542

You can do it using the accesskey attribute of the Html Anchor tag as follows but you will press ALT instead of CTRL:-

<a accesskey="b" href="linkabc.html">linka<u>b</u>c</a> 
<a accesskey="e" href="linkdef.html">linkd<u>e</u>f</a>

I hope this helps you and you can check this url for more information:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_key

Upvotes: 0

user514868
user514868

Reputation: 43

No Javascript needed.

<a accesskey="b" href="#">linka<u>b</u>c</a>
<a accesskey="e" href="#">linkd<u>e</u>f</a>

You can access the first link by pressing Alt-b, the second by Alt-e.

Upvotes: 1

Joel
Joel

Reputation: 16655

This post has a little Javascript library that lets you bind keyboard shortcuts. Might try looking into that. He has a little demo on that page and it seems to work pretty well.

Upvotes: 0

Josiah Kiehl
Josiah Kiehl

Reputation: 3633

The vanilla javascript way:

You'll need to bind to the onkeydown event, then retrieve the keycode. Get keycodes here: http://www.cambiaresearch.com/c4/702b8cd1-e5b0-42e6-83ac-25f0306e3e25/Javascript-Char-Codes-Key-Codes.aspx

For modifier keys, you'll need to maintain variables to check if they are depressed. For instance, if the keycode for control is detected onkeydown, toggle the var control = true. Onkeyup, you'll toggle back: var control = false. To trigger the action, you'll do:

if (control && e.keycode == 66) { // 66 happens to be "b"
  performAction();
}

This is much easier if you're using a library, though, as there are plugins for all major javascript libraries for keybindings, such as this one for jQuery: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/hotkeys

Upvotes: 1

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