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

For checking if the shiftkey is pressed while clicking with the mouse, there is an exact property in the click event object: shiftKey (and also for ctrl and alt and meta key): https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_shiftkey.asp

So using jQuery:

$('#anchor').on('click', function (e) {
    if (e.shiftKey) {
        // your code
    }
});