Question

Hello I am new to Jquery i am using pure javascript till now.Now i am trying jquery .

HTML

<input id="scriptBox" type="text" onkeypress="return test(event)" />

Javascript

function test(e) {
    if (e.keyCode == 13) {
        var tb = document.getElementById("scriptBox");
        eval(tb.value);
        return false;
    }
}

How to do this in jquery.

Answer 1

Beware of using eval, but here’s how to write your code in jQuery:

$('#scriptBox').keypress(function(e) {
   if(e.keyCode == 13) {
      eval($('#scriptBox').val());
      return false;
   }
});