jquery ctrl+enter as enter in text area

Question

I am trying to reproduce standard instant messenger behavior on TEXT area control: enter works as send button. ctrl+enter as real enter.

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Answer 1

A few potential causes:

Define the function before you reference it.

Make sure you're binding the event in the document.ready event, so that the dom item exists when you reference it.

Change else (e.keyCode == 13) to else if (e.keyCode == 13).

Make sure this is a textarea, not an input[type=text].

Consider using keypress instead of keydown.

Some browsers will send keyCode == 10 instead of keyCode == 13 when using the ctrl modifier key (some browsers will send it even when you aren't using the ctrl modifier key).