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

A more modular approach plus the ability to keep your this scope in the listeners:

var checkShift = function(fn, self) {
  return function(event) {
    if (event.shiftKey) {
      fn.call(self, event);
    }
    return true;
  };
};

$(document).on('keydown', checkShift(this.enterMode, this));