cursor is jumping when pressing the arrow keys

Question

I have a textbox, where a forbidden character cant be typed. #.

This works, however, when the textbox is filled in with data, and I put the focus on the middle of th

Answer 1

Have you tried using the keypress event ?

The documentation warns about possible differences in behavior between platforms.

In Firefox at least, e.which corresponds to the ascii code of the typed character after transformation :

$('#txtClient').keypress(function (e) {
    console.log('keypress:', e.which);
    if (e.which == 35) {
        return false;
    }
});

updated fiddle