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Joe Park
Joe Park

Reputation: 139

jQuery code not working on IE 8

following code works perfectly on FF and Chrome but not in IE8. 

$(window).keyup(function(e) {
    var code = e.which
    if (code == 9) 
    { 
        alert("do stuff");
        cellContent();
        autoDate();
    }
});

This code will recognize the tab and does the function cellContent() and autoDate(). I added alert to see if this functions are ever used on IE8 but it doesnt seem like it recognizes it.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1606

Answers (2)

Joe Park
Joe Park

Reputation: 139

I have found the answer! All I had to do was instead of doing

$(window).keyup(function(e) {
var code = e.which
if (code == 9) 
{ 
    alert("do stuff");
    cellContent();
    autoDate();
}
});

I just had to do change $(window) to $(document)

$(document).keyup(function(e) 
{

 var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
 if (code == 9) 
  { 
    alert("hello world");
    cellContent();
    autoDate();
  }

});

Thank you for all the help

Upvotes: 2

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47966

Why don't you try using this statement to decide what value to use. It seems to work for me on all the major browsers.

var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
I'm not entirely sure of the technical explanation, but a quick search gave me this page :

http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html

It contains a table with references to each major browser and which property they support

  • event.keyCode
  • event.which
  • event.charCode

Continuation from comments :

Additionally, try binding the event with this syntax :

$(window).bind('keyup', callBack);

Or maybe tried binding the event to document :

$(document).bind('keyup', callBack);

Upvotes: 0

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