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Hello this post is the one of the things i have stumbled upon today

I was working on a project and i was requested to do something ala Gmail shortcuts, aka you press a specific button and something happens, well, first off i looked on the web to see if there is any information, which of course it’s not at least from what i looked so i had to build it myself

First off we’ll start with a basic XHTML, containing an un-ordered list, styled a bit, the real secret is the JS itself, you can style the xhtml/css as you want, it doesnt really matter. To save space i’ll upload the complete final files at the end of this post, with instructions and comented css/xhtml/jquery

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Hello

Did you knew that Google Chrome does not understand keypress() on special keys like arrow keys/esc/enter/etc ?

Me neither

I was trying to get the following code to work and it didnt work in Google Chrome at all

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Hello

This is a post about the 3 properties in javascript, keypress, keyup and keydown. There are some small differences in the means to extract the data of the pressed key.

First off to explain the 3 properties:

• keypress – this is both a keyup and keydown, it triggers when the key is pressed
• keyup – this triggers when you lift your finger from a key
• keydown -> this triggers when you drop your finger on a key

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Hello

I just found out something very very interesting when i was working on a project. Basically it required me to put a div inside a a tag and that div also had some links. I managed to do that however the code is not valid. Will post source code with examples and explanations tomorrow.

Okay so basically what I was trying to create was something like this (simplified for good reasons)

My version also had a hover JS element over the entire box, so when the user hovers over it, it gets highlighted. So far nothing went bad, everything fits together nicely

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Hello

I was always wondering what jQuery can do to help me give more power to my CSS stylesheets so one day after some time spent on the web i discovered a very very simple solution that was so easy to install that i was baffled that i couldnt figure it out a lot sooner. So without further comments here is the rundown of the stuff.

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