Enter/Return Press Event Listener

Posted by jj_jiles on Feb 9, 2012 in Code, jQuery & Javascript | 0 comments

Disclaimer: I’m feeling lazy and this one is an easy one Wanna add an event listener to your form elements that fires a click() event for another element, but don’t want to write the code over and over again? var enter_key_press = function( obj, btn ) { var obj = obj; var btn = btn; obj.unbind('keyup'); obj.bind('keyup',function(event) { if(event.keyCode == 13){ btn.click(); } }); } // to call it enter_key_press( jQuery('#element_needing_event_listener'),...