accesskey activation

[ronsig]

Hi,

I'm using the "accesskey" attribute for buttons/links, but the hot keys only set the focus on the button/link.

How can I make them actually fire the button's callback function?
e.g
<button accesskey=&quot;t&quot; onclick=&quot;alert();&quot;><u>T</u>est
</button>

<a accesskey=&quot;x&quot; href=&quot;

http://www.cnn.com&quot;>CNN</a>

pressing Alt+T only sets focus to the button
pressing Alt+X sets focus to the link (without navigation)

any way to do this?

10x
Ron

 

[harmmeijer]

The button worked for me in both mozilla and IE 5...
The href did not so I put some onkeyup code in like so:

<button accesskey=&quot;t&quot; onclick=&quot;alert();&quot;><u>T</u>est
</button>

<a accesskey=&quot;x&quot; onKeyUp=&quot;this.click();&quot; href=&quot;

http://www.cnn.com&quot;>CNN</a>;

 

[ronsig]

Yes, the button works for me too now (can't figure out why it didn't before)

there's a problem with your suggestion for the link: if the user merelty tabs through the items on the page, it'll activate the link!

 

[harmmeijer]

You should probebly check if the keyup was the x key.


<button accesskey=&quot;t&quot; onclick=&quot;alert();&quot;><u>T</u>est
</button>

<a accesskey=&quot;x&quot; onKeyUp=&quot;if(document.all){e=window.event;}var inttmp = 0;if(e.keyCode==88){this.click();}&quot; href=&quot;

http://www.cnn.com&quot;>CNN</a>

 

[ronsig]

Thanks!