I would like to allow keyboard navigation for a photo gallery website (one page, one photo). What's the Javascript function to do this? I use the code below to manage keyboard events, and I would like to know how to implement goToPage() function.
Thanks.
document.onkeydown = checkKeycode;
function checkKeycode(e) {
var keycode;
if (window.event)
keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else
if (e) keycode = e.which;
switch (keycode) {
case 37: // left arrow
goToPage("page1.htm");
break;
case 39: // right arrow
goToPage("page3.htm");
break;
}
}
You need a document.location:
function checkKeycode(e)
{
var keycode;
if (window.event)
keycode = window.event.keyCode;
else
if (e) keycode = e.which;
switch (keycode)
{
case 37: // left arrow
document.location = "page1.htm";
break;
case 39: // right arrow
document.location = "page3.htm";
break;
}
}
As long as your pages are neatly named, you could use
document.location = "http://www.myURL"
But you'll need a cycle for your pages. There are many ways of doing this, such as appending a number to a string that you pass:
var count = 0;
var html;
function previous(){
html = "http://www.page" + count + ".htm"
document.location = html;
}
function next(){
var count +=1;
html = "http://www.page" + count + ".htm"
document.location = html;
}
or storing the strings in an array etc.