jQuery Event Keypress: Which key was pressed?

Question

With jQuery, how do I find out which key was pressed when I bind to the keypress event?

$(\'#searchbox input\').bind(\'keypress\', function(e) {});
         


        

Answer 1

The event.keyCode and event.which are depracated. See @Gibolt answer above or check documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent

event.key should be used instead

keypress event is depracated as well: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/keypress_event