That's a nice hack Karl, and after reading the W3C spec, I'm inclined
to agree that browser interpretation of what a click is, is its own
thing. I've found that IE and firefox assign click only to focused
anchors when return is hit.
I've got round it in a slightly different way by finding all the
elements I'd like to act as event handlers and wrapping an empty <a
href="#"></a> around the text. Frankly, I think yours is less of a
problem (what with my method meaning that inherited styles), unless
there's varying interpretation of what keyCode 13 is (I'm thinking of
character sets, specifically).
Thanks for your input, though, and I'm likely to look into this in the
future, as I'm more than likely to need click events on things that
aren't links, and they'll have to be keyboard driven, too.
On 3/22/07, Karl Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you'll find that the "click" event being fired on "enter" is
> actually more of a "standard hack" from browser makers. I'm guessing
> this was done mainly because keyboard events are so undersupported by
> website developers. Thus for some "standard" elements that get
> keyboard focus the support was added for firing "click" on enter.
>
> You'll just have to add in the "hack" yourself, like this:
>
> $("p").keyup( function(e) {
> if ( e.keyCode == 13 ) {
> alert("Hello");
> return false;
> }
> return true;
> });
>
> Karl Rudd
>
> On 3/22/07, Dan Eastwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Using the file below, I'm trying to work out why elements on my page
> > that are acting as event 'handles', do not fire the click event (i.e.
> > alert("Hello"); ) when tabbed into and the return/enter button
> > pressed.
> >
> > The first paragraph can have focus and be 'clicked' with the keyboard,
> > but no alert fires. The second paragraph's <a> element gets focus next
> > when tabbed into and will cause the alert when return is pressed. The
> > third tab element, <a> in blockquote, doesn't cause the alert to
> > popup, as is expected.
> >
> > Can anyone explain to me why the first paragraph won't work as an
> > event 'handle' when using the keyboard and click(function)? Is there
> > another way of assigning an event to an element that's not an <a> when
> > using the keyboard (not keyup, etc, because it should be the return
> > key that fires the event, not 'any' key).
> >
> > Many thanks for your help,
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en">
> > <head>
> > <title>Click test</title>
> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
> > <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-gb" />
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript"
> > src="../../_functions/js/libraries/jquery.js"></script>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > $(document).ready(function() {
> > $("p").click( function() { alert("Hello"); } );
> > });
> > </script>
> >
> > </head>
> >
> > <body>
> >
> >
> > <p tabindex="1">Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus
> > error sit
> > voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque
> > ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae
> > dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit
> > aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos
> > qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt.</p>
> >
> > <p>Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor
> > sit amet,
> > consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora
> > incidunt ut labore et dolore <a href="/">magnam aliquam quaerat
> > voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem
> > ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi
> > consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate
> > velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum
> > fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?</a></p>
> >
> > <blockquote>Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum
> > quia dolor
> > sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi
> > tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore <a href="/">magnam aliquam
> > quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum
> > exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex
> > ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in
> > ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum
> > qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?</a></blockquote>
> >
> >
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Eastwell
> >
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> >
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