Keyboard shortcuts with jQuery

How can I wire an event to fire if someone presses the letter g?

(Where is the character map for all the letters BTW?)

Solution 1:

Since this question was originally asked, John Resig (the primary author of jQuery) has forked and improved the js-hotkeys project. His version is available at:

http://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys

Solution 2:

What about jQuery Hotkeys?

jQuery Hotkeys lets you watch for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination.

To bind Ctrl+c to a function (f), for example:

$(document).bind('keydown', 'ctrl+c', f);

Solution 3:

I recently wrote a standalone library for this. It does not require jQuery, but you can use it with jQuery no problem. It's called Mousetrap.

You can check it out at http://craig.is/killing/mice

Solution 4:

Well there are many ways. But I am guessing you are interested in an advanced implementation. Few days back I was in same search, and I found one.

Here.

It's good for capturing events from keyboard and you will find the character maps too. And good thing is ... it's jQuery. Check the demo on same page and decide.

An alternative library is here.