How to detect escape key press?

Question

How to detect escape key press in IE, Firefox and Chrome? Below code works in IE and alerts 27, but in Firefox it alerts 0

$('body').keypress(function(e){
    alert(e.which);
    if(e.which == 27){
        // Close my modal window
    }
});

Answer 1

Note: keyCode is becoming deprecated, use key instead.

function keyPress (e) {
    if(e.key === "Escape") {
        // write your logic here.
    }
}

Code Snippet:

var msg = document.getElementById('state-msg');

document.body.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
  if (e.key == "Escape") {
    msg.textContent += 'Escape pressed:'
  }
});

Press ESC key <span id="state-msg"></span>

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keyCode and keypress are deprecated.

It seems keydown and keyup work.

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$(document).keyup(function(e) {
     if (e.key === "Escape") { // escape key maps to keycode `27`
        // <DO YOUR WORK HERE>
    }
});

Which keycode for escape key with jQuery