Entry
How can I write from keyboard to the page ?
May 27th, 2000 08:36
Martin Honnen, Rogerio Vianna,
Capture one of the key events and write the captured key to another
page element (which needs to be positioned in NN4 to do so):
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
#output {
position: absolute;
color: white;
background-color: orange;
layer-background-color: orange;
}
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
var text = '';
function keyHandling (evt) {
var key = document.layers ? evt.which :
document.all ? event.keyCode :
evt.keyCode ? evt.keyCode :
evt.which ? evt.which :
evt.charCode;
var ch = String.fromCharCode(key);
text += ch;
if (document.layers) {
var d = document.output.document;
d.open();
d.write(text);
d.close();
}
else if (document.all)
document.all.output.innerText = text;
else if (document.getElementById) {
var l = document.getElementById('output');
if (l.firstChild)
l.firstChild.nodeValue = text;
else
l.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
}
}
document.onkeypress = keyHandling;
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Please type in text:
<BR>
<DIV ID="output"></DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
