Comments on: Replicating Yahoo’s Caps Lock Indicator With jQuery

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:28:00 +0000

Unfortunately I have to agree but, as mentioned in an earlier reply, it is a limitation and was more an exploration of working with key presses in JavaScript than anything else. Thanks for your comment.

By: Nicholas Chamberlin

Nicholas Chamberlin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:30:00 +0000

This example and page is absolutely useless. It only notified you if you press the caps lock key while focused on the textbox. The whole point of checking for caps lock is so the user doesn’t think they’re entering their password in lowercase when they accidentally left caps lock on.. This example doesn’t accomplish anything useful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:38:00 +0000

Sairam, unfortunately we do not have access to the OS via the browser so we can only trap the keys as they are pressed. That is a definite limitation of the script but, it can be useful in some instances.

If you do manage to make it more useful, please let me know ;)

By: Sairam Bakthavatchalu

Sairam Bakthavatchalu — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:45:00 +0000

Hi Schalk,
It works fine for keypress :) can i get the same for onfocus of that particular Textbox ?

When already Capslock has been activated and if we then focus on textbox it should work :) i think if we modify little i can get the desired but i am helpless :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:14:00 +0000

Hi there Johan,

Yes, that is unfortunately a limitation of JavaScript. Not the ideal solution, was more an exploration of how you would do that then anything else.

Schalk