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jQuery: Prevent enter key

I am trying to prevent the enter key from being put into a textarea, but it doesn't seem to work.

$('#comment').keyup(function(event) {
  if (event.text.charCodeAt() == '10') {
     event.preventDefault();
   }
});
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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I have written little demonstration on jsfiddle.net, where you can try this code

Everybody has right answer :)

$('#comment').keypress(function (event) {
    if (event.keyCode === 10 || event.keyCode === 13) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
});
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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You can't cancel a keyup event. You can cancel keydown and keypress events though. In the documentation, notice that under "Event Information", "Cancels" is "No" for keyup:

  • keyup
  • keydown
  • keypress

Using keydown allows you to cancel far more keys than keypress, but if you don't want to cancel until after the key has been lifted, keypress is what you want. Fortunately for you, the enter key is one of the cancellable keys for the keypress event.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Use event.keyCode in the keydown event:

$('#comment').keydown(function(event) {
   if(event.keyCode == 13) return false;
   //carry on...
});
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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