JavaScript keyboard shortcuts for web application

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Achim picture Achim · Apr 29, 2011 · Viewed 22.4k times · Source

I want to develop a web application, which should (ideally) be fully usable via the keyboard. I know how to handle keyboard events in JavaScript, but managing them for a larger application is quite boring.

Is there a library which makes that process easier?

Please note that I'm not interested in a full-blown Web GUI framework. I want to keep control over my webpage/application.

Answer

Oscar Godson picture Oscar Godson · May 3, 2011

Check out my project:

https://github.com/oscargodson/jkey

And demos:

http://oscargodson.github.com/jKey/

Feel free to use it and if you want, contribute :)

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