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?

The foll

Answer 1

This works great for me:

function listenForShiftKey(e){
    var evt = e || window.event;
    if (evt.shiftKey) {
      shiftKeyDown = true;
    } else {
      shiftKeyDown = false;
    }
}