jQuery - keydown / keypress /keyup ENTERKEY detection?

Question

Trying to get jQuery to detect enter input, but space and other keys are detected, enter isn't detected. What's wrong below:

$("#entersomething").keyup(function(e) {
    alert("up");
    var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
    if (code==13) {
        e.preventDefault();
    }

    if (code == 32 || code == 13 || code == 188 || code == 186) {
        $("#displaysomething").html($(this).val());
});

<input id="entersomething" />
<div id="displaysomething"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

http://jsfiddle.net/zeRrv/

Answer 1

JavaScript/jQuery

$("#entersomething").keyup(function(e){ 
    var code = e.key; // recommended to use e.key, it's normalized across devices and languages
    if(code==="Enter") e.preventDefault();
    if(code===" " || code==="Enter" || code===","|| code===";"){
        $("#displaysomething").html($(this).val());
    } // missing closing if brace
});

HTML

<input id="entersomething" type="text" /> <!-- put a type attribute in -->
<div id="displaysomething"></div>

Answer 2

update: nowadays we have mobile and custom keyboards and we cannot continue trusting these arbitrary key codes such as 13 and 186. in other words, stop using event.which/event.keyCode and start using event.key:

if (event.key === "Enter" || event.key === "ArrowUp" || event.key === "ArrowDown")

Answer 3

I think you'll struggle with keyup event - as it first triggers keypress - and you won't be able to stop the propagation of the second one if you want to exclude the Enter Key.

Answer 4

jQuery Sparkle includes a custom event for this. The source can be seen here: http://github.com/balupton/jquery-sparkle/blob/master/scripts/resources/jquery.events.js

Here is a demo http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery-sparkle/demo/#event-enter