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

Browsers have different ways of handling keyboard events. Have a look at http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html for more info.

For example, these changes to your code will get it working in Firefox:

and

function keypress(e) {
    alert(window.event ? event.keyCode : e.which);
    // other stuff
}