Javascript works in IE but not in Firefox

**maguidhir** · 12-16-2005, 01:58 PM

Hi there, this is my first post!

I'm having a problem with a javascript that works in IE but not in Firefox. I'm working with c# and asp.net. The script is to set the focus to a particular asp image button on the page when the user hit's the 'enter' key. here is the script:

Code:

function onkey()  {         
     if (window.event.keyCode==13) {                  
     document.getElementById("but_update").focus();         
     }     
}

And then in the form tag, I put

Code:

<form id="form1" method="post" runat="server" onkeydown="onkey();">

Now all this works in IE, but not in Firefox. Any idea why?

**funkdaddu** · 12-16-2005, 03:15 PM

If you look at the Javascript console for Firefox it says it's not getting the window.event.. pass the event to the function:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<title>Untitled Page</title>
		<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function onkey(e)  {      
     if (e.keyCode==13) {                  
     document.getElementById("but_update").focus();         
     }     
}
//-->
</script>
	</head>

	<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
		<form id="FormName" action="" method="get" name="FormName">
			<input type="text" name="textfieldName" size="24" onkeypress="onkey(event); return false;"><input id="but_update" type="image" name="but_update" src="" alt="" height="50" width="50">
		</form>
		<p></p>
	</body>

</html>

Does that work in IE? (I'm on a Mac)

**ibbo** · 12-23-2005, 07:52 AM

Try this instead.

Code:

var keyCode = event.keyCode ? event.keyCode : event.which ? event.which : event.charCode;
	if (keyCode == 13) 
		document.getElementById("but_update").focus();

Ibbo