I am pretty new to AngularJS but found it quite to my liking so far. For my current project I need hotkey functionality and was happy to see that it is supported since the 1.1.2 release.
The ng-keydown directive (http://code.angularjs.org/1.1.3/docs/api/ng.directive:ngKeydown) works as expected for input types but fails me for any other context like div etc. which seems odd given that the documentation says otherwise.
Here is an minimal example (http://jsfiddle.net/TdXWW/12/) of the working respectively the not working:
<input ng-keydown="keypress($event)">
<div ng-keydown="keypress($event)">
NOTE: I know this could be handled with plain jQuery (http://www.mkyong.com/jquery/how-to-check-if-an-enter-key-is-pressed-with-jquery/) but I much prefer to understand how to deal with it in AngularJS.
I was having the same problem and was able to fix it by following this simple tip provided in this comment: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1718035/80264
Thanks! To wrap this up I got this working by, injecting $document into my directive, then:
This was the way I got it working in the end.
Add
ng-app
to thehtml
element andng-keyup
andng-keydown
to thebody
element:Then the funcitons in my controller deal with the event calling event.which to get the key code (in my implementation I set a var to the rootScope but you could also broadcast to other controllers)
The comment by charlietfl cleared things up and binding the event to $(document) worked as expected! Take away message: The AngularJS documentation is not really exhaustive, i.e. demands background knowledge.