[bashforth]

Hi .. I am looking for a way to trap for specific keystrokes such as CTRL-P, CTRL-Backspace, etc. I need to be able to trap for these whether or not the user is in a textbox/textarea or simply has the browser window open on our page. I know I can trap for chars and ASCII codes, but how do I trap for CTRL and other extended keystrokes?

Your help is appreciated!

[TwoD]

Try looking at this page on QuirksMode.
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html
It discusses events such as onkeydown etc, and there's also info about what each browser supports.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a special event property available which you can use to detect which "modifier" keys were pressed when an event fired.

[Shaffer]

http://bur.st/~sacha/
This is a basic example of what you need. I did this with a friend.
Just replace the code with with the correct key-codes, which the link above should probably teach you about, and change it a bit so that the function will produce only key-combinations accordingly.

Glad to potensually help,
Shaffer.

[bashforth]

for your responses. I will continue to test.