jQuery: keyPress Backspace won't fire?

Question

I wonder what I'm doing wrong:

$(".s").keypress(function(e) {
   switch (e.keyCode) {
      case 8: // Backspace
      //console.log('backspace');
      case 9: // Tab
      case 13: // Enter
      case 37: // Left
      case 38: // Up
      case 39: // Right
      case 40: // Down
         break;

      default:
         doSearch();
   }
});

I want my doSearch() function also to be fired when I hit the Backspace key. At the moment absolutely nothing happens when I press Backspace in Chrome and Safari.

any ideas?

Answer 1

Use keyup instead of keypress. This gets all the key codes when the user presses something