Here are a couple options: 1) Set up the keypress binding on the element(s) and then wrap your switch in a conditional (if) that checks a flag your test link click would set to true
2) Event delegation: Set up the keypress binding at the document/some other higher level in the DOM. Use event.target to check whether the key was pressed on an element on which you want to handle 'a' or 's', otherwise ignore. - Richard Richard D. Worth http://rdworth.org/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:35 AM, hubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a simple keypress event that throws an alert when you press "a" > or "s". Is it possible to bind this event to specific elements, so > that it is not a global keypress, but only fired if the test link is > first clicked. Then, $(this) would be used to get attributes of the > clicked element if needed. > > Any ideas on how to get that to work, or if it is possible? > > $("#test").keypress(function(e) > { > switch(e.which) > { > case 97: alert("A pushed!"); > break; > > // user presses the "s" key > case 115: alert("S pushed!") > } > }); >
