Mar 6, 2006 If you often use shortcut keys to navigate the web or any other program for that matter, you probably expect the ESC key to close popups and message boxes (alerts). When using
popup windows on the web, this is however not the case. If you use popups to show
full sized images of thumbnails, it would be natural to press the ESC key in the expectation
of the popup to close.
To achieve this functionality, we have to place a little JavaScript in the popup window.
Add the following to the head section of the html page:
<script
type="text/javascript">
function ESCclose(evt) {
if (evt.keyCode == 27)
window.close();
}
</script>
Then add an onkeypress attribute in the body tag, like this:
<body
onkeypress="ESCclose(event)">
That's all it takes and it's cross-browser compatible.
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