Detecting arrow up/down keypress in the Filter control

Datagaard

I would like to capture when the up or down arrow button has been pressed while in the Filter control in data tables.

From what I can find by code, is that these keys have been disabled from the dataTables_filter input).on('keypress', function(event).

oTable.on('draw.dt',function () {
    // Deselect any selected row first
    oTable.rows({selected: true}).deselect();
    $('div.dataTables_filter input').on('keypress',function (event) {
        if (event.keyCode === 13 && filteredRows == 1) {
            oTable.row(':eq(0)', { page: 'current' }).select();
            var selectedVND = oTable.rows({selected: true}).data()[0].VENDOR_NO;
            document.location.href="vendorMaint.php?VENDOR_NO=" + selectedVND;
            //alert('Search Enter key pressed');
        }
   });          
});

In doing so would like to make the next / previous row in the data table to be selected.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

allan

You could listen for keyup: http://live.datatables.net/hebogiro/1/edit .

Note that you should not add other event listeners inside the draw event - it would only add it when the draw happens. And then it would add it on every draw (again and again!).

Allan

Datagaard

Thanks for the tip on the nested event listener.