KeyBoard Navigation for menu using jquery

Question

I am trying to add keyboard navigation to Menu(ul li based ) , i have bound the keydown event to menu (or should i bind keydown to the document ?)

the handler function used is given below

 KeyDown: function(e) {        

    var toFocus = false;


                  if (e.keyCode == 38) {
         toFocus = $((e.target/* li */).next()[0]);
      }
                          if (e.keyCode == 40) {
         toFocus = $((e.target).next()[1]);
      }
    if (toFocus) {
        $(e.target).attr('tabIndex', '-1');
        $(toFocus).attr('tabIndex', '0');
        toFocus.focus();
        return false;
        }
        }

here i get e.target as html instead of li ?

can u suggest any other way to add keyboard navigation ?

Answer 1

I just wonder if, instead of doing this by your self, why not using an already existing plugin?

jQuery Keyboard Navigation

demo page here

my demo: just to add a demo page of an example