Wednesday, February 8, 2012

KeyTips plugin : Add keyboard support to Web application

It is very useful to add keyboard support to commercial application interface where user can able to fill up details and navigate throughout application without using mouse. Till now this type of accesskey only available with window application but now it is also possible with web application interface as well with KeyTips Jquery Plugin.

The KeyTips (formerly the Access Key Highlighter plugin) provides various options for highlighting access keys on web forms when the user presses their browser's access key shortcut key, e.g. Alt for Internet Explorer and Safari, Shift+Alt in Firefox.
Visit the KeyTips jQuery demo page and hold down ALT + Shift (Alt for IE) to see the key tips.

Following are steps to add this jquery plugin to your application

If you look at source code you found accesskey attributes in all fields which will be used to with combination with ALT + SHIFT (ALT for IE and safari)




You can also add this Jqeruy plugin by
Nuget


AJAX wrapper on basis of this jquery plugin also available at codeplex

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