jQuery's 'keypress' doesn't work for some keys in Chrome. How to work around?

Question

I\'m trying to implement key-press functionality which will remove a div when the user hits Esc. This works for Firefox & IE with the following code:

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Answer 1

use keydown. keypress doesn't work with ESC in Chrome (not sure about other browsers).

$(newTag).keydown(function(e) {  //keypress did not work with ESC;
    if (event.which == '13') {
      ProfilePage.saveNewTag(search_id, $(newTag).val());
    }
    else if (window.event.which){
      $(newTag).remove();
    }
});