Key press event is not working in Mozilla Firefox. I have create a table row dynamically with a text boix in it and that text box has a key press event too.

  var el = document.createElement('input');
           el.type = 'text';
           el.name = 'suggest2';
             el.setAttribute("id",str2); 

             el.setAttribute("onkeypress","additemifenter(this.id)"); 
 cell2.appendChild(el);
row.appendChild(cell2);

In google chrome the function additemifenter(this.id) is called. But in firefox that function is not getting executed. What is the alternate way to do this in firefox?

Key press event is not working in Mozilla Firefox. I have create a table row dynamically with a text boix in it and that text box has a key press event too.

  var el = document.createElement('input');
           el.type = 'text';
           el.name = 'suggest2';
             el.setAttribute("id",str2); 

             el.setAttribute("onkeypress","additemifenter(this.id)"); 
 cell2.appendChild(el);
row.appendChild(cell2);

In google chrome the function additemifenter(this.id) is called. But in firefox that function is not getting executed. What is the alternate way to do this in firefox?

• javascript
• mozilla
• keypress

• duplicate: stackoverflow./questions/95731/… – davin Commented Jun 4, 2011 at 8:54

1 Answer 1

Maybe the semicolon at the end would help

el.setAttribute("onkeypress","additemifenter(this.id);");

but

why don't you use the standard event handling model:

el.onkeypress = function(event){
// functionality
};

or

el.addEventListener("keypress",function(event){ 
// functionality
},false);

to check the keycode you must use the code:

var code = (event.keyCode) ? event.keyCode : event.which;

if(code == 13){

}