keydown on body?

Question

I want to get alerted whenever I press a key.

I\'ve tried:

$(\'body\').live(\'keyup\', function() {
     alert(\'testing\');
});

Bu

Answer 1

It does not work because your page does not have focus.. you need to click on the page first and it will work..

alternatively you could forcibly set the focus to an input element and thus bring focus to the page..

$(function(){ $('input_selector_here').focus(); });