jQuery: How to capture the TAB keypress within a Textbox

Question

I want to capture the TAB keypress, cancel the default action and call my own javascript function.

Answer 1

Above shown methods did not work for me, may be i am using bit old jquery, then finally the below shown code snippet works for - posting just in case somebody in my same position

$('#textBox').live('keydown', function(e) {
    if (e.keyCode == 9) {
        e.preventDefault();
        alert('tab');
    }
});

Answer 2

Working example in jQuery 1.9:

$('body').on('keydown', '#textbox', function(e) {
    if (e.which == 9) {
        e.preventDefault();
        // do your code
    }
});

Answer 3

You can capture an event tab using this JQuery API.

$( "#yourInputTextId" ).keydown(function(evt) {
   if(evt.key === "Tab")
      //call your function
});