Question

simple question –

This will not seem to work in ie7/8. http://jsfiddle.net/XvXpE/1/

Any idea why? Or what I can do to fix it?

Answer 1

You can use the document event;

window.onload=function(){
    document.onkeyup=keyUp; 
}
function keyUp(e) {
  e = e || window.event;
  alert(e);
};