onKeyPress event not working in Firefox

Question

I have the following javascript code...Here I am using onKeyPress=\"someFunction( )\" in the body tag to get the keyCode of the key that is pressed.

Answer 1

When problems like this show up, I start to use any kind of a JavaScript framework. Those frameworks are build to avoid problems with different browsers.

To catch all different keypress() apis, like the link from Emmett shows, can be very difficult.

Example:

In HTML head:

In the JS tag:

$(document).keydown(function(event) {
 alert('You pressed '+event.keyCode);
 event.preventDefault();
});