angular.js listen for keypress as shortcut for button

Question

My first ever angular application is a pretty basic survey tool. I have multiple choice questions, with a button for each answer and a basic function that logs each answer o

Answer 1

function on specific keypress/keydown

Is is possible to call a function only when a specific key is pressed, like the spacebar? I've looked into ngKeydown

But this will call the function on every keypress, is it possible to see what key was pressed, maybe within the function?

Use the $event object exposed by the ng-keydown directive.

JS

 $scope.fn = function (event) {
     $scope.keyCode = event.keyCode;
     if (event.keyCode == 32) {
         console.log("spacebar pressed");
     };
 });

The DEMO on PLNKR

For more information on the $event object, see AngularJS Developer Guide - $event