How to Check if Enter Key is Pressed in Textbox JavaScript/jQuery ?

Last Updated : 07 Oct, 2024

Given a textarea element, the task is to check the user presses the enter key with the help of JQuery.

jQuery keyup() Method

This method triggers the keyup event or adds a function to run when a keyup event occurs. The keyup event occurs when a keyboard key is released.

Syntax:

Trigger the keyup event for the selected elements:

$(selector).keyup()

Attach a function to the keyup event:

$(selector).keyup(function)

jQuery trigger() Method

This method triggers the defined event and the default behavior of an event for the selected elements.

Syntax:

$(selector).trigger(event, eventObj, param1, param2, ...)

jQuery on() Method

This method adds one or more event handlers for the selected elements and child elements.

Syntax:

$(selector).on(event, childSelector, data, function, map)

Example 1: In this example, the keyup event is added to the textarea, when it occurs then a new event enterKey is triggered by keyup event.

html

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>

<head>
    <title>
        Event for user pressing enter
        button in a textbox
    </title>

    <script
        src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js">
        </script>
</head>

<body style="text-align:center;">

    <h1 id="h" style="color:green;">
        GeeksForGeeks
    </h1>

    <p id="GFG_UP" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">
        click the Enter Key inside the textarea.
    </p>

    <textarea></textarea>
    <br>

    <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color:green; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">
    </p>

    <script>
        $('textarea').keyup(function (e) {
            if (e.keyCode == 13) {
                $(this).trigger("enterKey");
            }
        });
        $('textarea').on("enterKey", function (e) {
            $("#GFG_DOWN").text("Enter key pressed inside textarea");
        });                             
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Output:

Example 2: In this example, the keyup event is added to the textarea, when it occurs then a message-Enter key pressed inside textarea is printed on the screen without triggering a new event to handle it.