Question

I have a textbox with a keydown handler. The handler detects if you press escape and if so it is meant to clear the textbox value. However, calling tb.value = "" normally works, unless the textbox has focus in which case it does nothing. I suspect I have to select the text and delete it, but how? This is in Firefox 12.

Answer 1

Have a look at this:-

LIVE DEMO

HTML:

<input type="text" id="content" />

JS:

$(document).keyup(function(e) {
    if (document.activeElement.nodeName == 'INPUT')
    {    
            if (e.keyCode == 13) {  // Enter
                alert('Enter Key Up');
            }   
            if (e.keyCode == 27) {  // Esc               
                    alert('Esc Key Up');
                    $('#content').val("");
            }
    }
});