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copied!<p>There are three keyboard events you can trap: <code>keyup</code>, <code>keydown</code>, and <code>keypress</code>. The first two behave the way you've observed, and the latter behaves the way you seem to want.</p> <p>You need to understand the difference between a key and the character(s) associated with that key.</p> <p>As explained in the <a href="http://api.jquery.com/keydown/">jQuery doco</a> (admittedly it is kind of buried), the <code>keyup</code> and <code>keydown</code> events give a keyCode that corresponds to the actual physical key on the keyboard, so uppercase "A" and lowercase "a" will have the same code, as will "2" and "@" - but note that the "2" key above the "W" has a different code to the "2" key on the numeric keypad. The <code>event.shiftKey</code> property will tell you whether shift was down at the time the key was pressed. Those two events can also check for non-text type keys like the arrow keys, Ctrl, Home, etc.</p> <p>On the other hand, the <a href="http://api.jquery.com/keypress/"><code>keypress</code></a> event gives a keyCode corresponding to the character, so "A" and "a" will give different keyCodes, as will "2" and "@". <strong>So <a href="http://api.jquery.com/keypress/"><code>keypress</code></a> may be better suited to your needs.</strong></p> <p>(By the way, this isn't a jQuery thing as such, this is normal behaviour even with "plain" JavaScript, though jQuery attempts to normalise behaviour across different browsers. One such normalisation is that jQuery makes sure that <code>event.which</code> will work consistently, so you should use <code>event.which</code> to get the code rather than <code>event.keyCode</code>.)</p>

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