Shift + mouseover with jQuery

Question

I\'m trying to detect whether the shift key is being pressed while the cursor is moved over a particular element. The function fires, but only after I click on another

Answer 1

It is not necessary to store in a variable when the shift key is pressed and released. You can achieve what you are trying to to like this:

$('#selector').mouseover(
    function(e){
        if (e.shiftKey)
        {
            console.log("the shift key is pressed");
        }
    }
);