Question

I’m trying to add key-controls to my rails page, so that when user press space, it would automatically click on link.

#application.js
      $(document).ready(function(){
    $(document).keypress(function(event) {
        if (event.which === 57) {
        $('#nextb').click();
        }
        }); 
     });

#in index.html
<a href="#" id="nextb" onclick="some other action">

But it gives me no result at all. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The keyCode of space (normalized through which) should be 32

if (event.which === 32) {
    $('#nextb').click();
}; 

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/qR2NU/5/