You are absolutely right Richard. I can't believe I didn't remember that because I just re-read Peter-Paul Koch's entire events section over at Quirksmode just a few weeks ago. Thank you for being my "second set of eyes" in this case.
Greatly appreciated my friend! On May 30, 9:16 am, "Richard D. Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/30/07, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to bind a keypress event handler to the input element in > > the last cell of a table row. In the real application this will be > > used to check for a tab key and call a function to add another row to > > the table. I have it working in FF but apparently the keypress event > > never gets bound in IE 6 or 7. > > The problem is not that the event doesn't get bound in IE, it's that IE > doesn't fire keypress for the TAB key. See: > > http://www.quirksmode.org/js/keys.html > > You'll want to use keydown instead. For more info, see: > > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/msg/685eb3294c2e9c4e > > - Richard D. Worth