Question

I’m new to JavaScript, and was wondering if there is a way to check where the focus was before the user pressed the Enter button. I want to process things differently based on the focus. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I guess that based on the focus means that if the user presses enter on an input you want to do one thing, and if the user presses enter into another input do something else.

if I am right, you don’t have to check where the focus was. You want to bind functions to the onkeypress event.

<script>
function doStuffOnEnter()
{
    var x = event.keyCode;
    if(x == 13) // if user pressed intro
    {
       //do stuff
    }
}
</script>
<input type="text" onkeypress="doStuffOnEnter()" />

the above code its very basic, but it’s only for you to get the idea.

more info here: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onkeypress.asp