//first, tell the browsers to react to the event if( document.captureEvents && Event.KEYUP ) { //remove this part if you do not need Netscape 4 to work document.captureEvents( Event.KEYUP ); } /* this next line tells the browser to detect a keyup event over the whole document and when it detects it, it should run the event handler function 'alertkey' */ document.onkeyup = alertkey; //now create the event handler function to process the event function alertkey(e) { if( !e ) { //if the browser did not pass the event information to the //function, we will have to obtain it from the event register if( window.event ) { //Internet Explorer e = window.event; } else { //total failure, we have no way of referencing the event return; } } if( typeof( e.keyCode ) == 'number' ) { //DOM e = e.keyCode; } else if( typeof( e.which ) == 'number' ) { //NS 4 compatible e = e.which; } else if( typeof( e.charCode ) == 'number' ) { //also NS 6+, Mozilla 0.9+ e = e.charCode; } else { //total failure, we have no way of obtaining the key code return; } if (e==37 && document.getElementById('lightboxDivBtnPrevious')){ setTimeout(document.getElementById('lightboxDivBtnPrevious').onclick,100); }if (e==39 && document.getElementById('lightboxDivBtnNext')){ setTimeout(document.getElementById('lightboxDivBtnNext').onclick,100); } //window.alert('The key pressed has keycode ' + e + // ' and is key ' + String.fromCharCode( e ) ); } function CleanEl( element ){ while(document.getElementById(element).hasChildNodes()){ document.getElementById(element).removeChild(document.getElementById(element).firstChild); } } function AddHTML( element,text, top ){ if(document.getElementById(element)){ var newdiv = document.createElement("div"); if (top) newdiv.innerHTML = text+document.getElementById(element).innerHTML; else newdiv.innerHTML = document.getElementById(element).innerHTML+text; CleanEl(element); document.getElementById(element).appendChild(newdiv); } }