detect key press on modal dialog not working

Question

I would like to detect whether the user has pressed any key when a modal is shown. I tried the following code but the events are not fired.

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Answer 1

I find it a better solution to give focus to the modal.

In order to do that, you have to add a tabindex parameter to your modal container, and then set its focus using JavaScript. Once that's done it can receive keyboard events: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6633271/2873507