JQuery or [removed] How determine if shift key being pressed while clicking anchor tag hyperlink?

Question

I have an anchor tag that calls a JavaScript function.

With or without JQuery how do I determine if the shift key is down while the link is clicked?

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Answer 1

For mouse events, I know that in Firefox at least the "shiftKey" property on the event object will tell you if the shift key is down. It's documented at MSDN but I haven't tried it in forever so I don't recall if IE does this right.

Thus you should be able to check for "shiftKey" on the event object in your "click" handler.