I am trying to do everthing I can in KnockoutJS however I am having a hard time getting this to convert to knockoutjs.
I have an input box that upon enter press I need to call addInputName(). This is kind of the old school way I think to do it. Is there a way to do this all in knockout?
<input id="inputName" onkeypress="addInputName(this, event);" />
<input id="addInputName" type="button" data-bind="event: { click: addInputName }" value="Add" />
self.addInputName = function (inputElement, event) {
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
$('#addInputName').click();
}
};
// View
<input id="inputName" data-bind="value: name, enterKey: addInputName" />
<input id="addInputName" type="button" data-bind="click: addInputName" value="Add" />
// ViewModel
function ViewModel() {
var self = this;
self.name = ko.observable();
self.names = ko.observableArray();
self.addInputName = function () {
self.names.push(self.name());
self.name("");
};
}
// Custom Binding
ko.bindingHandlers.enterKey = {
init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindings, data, context) {
var wrapper = function (data, event) {
if (event.keyCode === 13) {
valueAccessor().call(this, data, event);
}
};
ko.applyBindingsToNode(element, { event: { keyup: wrapper } }, context);
}
};
Custom Bindings @20:05
Look into Custom Bindings. It's an invaluable tool to help get UI logic out of your ViewModel's business logic.
Why not just wrap the inputs inside a form? Then you can change your HTML to
<form data-bind="submit: addInputName">
<input id="inputName" type="text" data-bind="value: name" />
<input id="addInputName" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
Then your KO viewmodel looks something like
var ViewModel = function()
{
var self = this;
self.name = ko.observable();
self.addInputName = function() {
// do stuff
}
}