When the user press F1 key,I am planning to display our application help and suppress default action.
I tried with different options not to show help popup of IE.
Here is my Code:
document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
if (e.key === 'F1' || e.keyCode == 112) {
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.cancelable = true;
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
e.returnValue = false;
//my help menu code goes here
}
});
Please let me know how can i achieve in showing the help page of my application instead of IE help.
I am using IE11 version.
You could subscribe to the window.onhelp
event:
window.onhelp =function() {
alert();
return false;
}
Try doing this
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
removedefaulthelp();
function removedefaulthelp()
{
window.onhelp = function () {
return false;
alert();
}
}
document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
if (e.key === 'F1' || e.keyCode == 112) {
removedefaulthelp();
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.cancelable = true;
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
e.returnValue = false;
//my help menu code goes here
}
});
}
</script>
Refer this for more information.
Here is an example similar to Sukanya's answer, but my solution shows how to extend for the F2-F12 keys, and purposely disregards F-combination keys, such a CTRL + F1.
<html>
<head>
<!-- Note: reference your own JQuery library here -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>F-key trap example</h1>
<div><h2>Example: Press the 'F1' key to open help</h2></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//uncomment to prevent on startup
//removeDefaultFunction();
/** Prevents the default function such as the help pop-up **/
function removeDefaultFunction()
{
window.onhelp = function () { return false; }
}
/** use keydown event and trap only the F-key,
but not combinations with SHIFT/CTRL/ALT **/
$(window).bind('keydown', function(e) {
//This is the F1 key code, but NOT with SHIFT/CTRL/ALT
var keyCode = e.keyCode || e.which;
if((keyCode == 112 || e.key == 'F1') &&
!(event.altKey ||event.ctrlKey || event.shiftKey || event.metaKey))
{
// prevent code starts here:
removeDefaultFunction();
e.cancelable = true;
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
e.returnValue = false;
// Open help window here instead of alert
alert('F1 Help key opened, ' + keyCode);
}
// Add other F-keys here:
else if((keyCode == 113 || e.key == 'F2') &&
!(event.altKey ||event.ctrlKey || event.shiftKey || event.metaKey))
{
// prevent code starts here:
removeDefaultFunction();
e.cancelable = true;
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
e.returnValue = false;
// Do something else for F2
alert('F2 key opened, ' + keyCode);
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>