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Knockout event binding for input keypress causes weird behavior

Long story short, I want to enable users to hit enter on an input element and certain method in my viewmodel be called. Here is my html input:

<input id="searchBox" class="input-xxlarge" type="text" data-bind="value: searchText, valueUpdate: 'afterkeydown', event: { keypress: $parent.searchKeyboardCmd}">

and here is my method in vm:

searchKeyboardCmd = function (data, event) { if (event.keyCode == 13) searchCmd(); };

everything works fine and searchCmd is called when I hit enter on input, but the problem is that I can type nothing in input, i.e. everything I type into input is ignored. Thank you in advance for your help.

Solution

  • According to KO docs you have to return true from your event handler if you want the default action proceed.

    searchKeyboardCmd = function (data, event) {
    if (event.keyCode == 13) searchCmd();
    return true;
};