keycode problem

[Jedi007]

While the uuser is focused on a textbox, I want him to be able to press enter and run a certain function. Function calls from onkeydown in the text area work fine but this script doesn't seem to work. Here's what I have (basically ripped it off of w3schools)

I have absolutely no idea what's going on

function checkit()
	{
	var keynum
	var keychar
	if(window.event) // IE
			{
			keynum = e.keyCode
			}
		else if(e.which) // Netscape/Firefox/Opera
			{
			keynum = e.which
			}
	keychar = String.fromCharCode(keynum)
	document.write(keychar);
	}

[7stud]

Alter your code to alert the keynum after you obtain it. Then hit the enter key and note which key code is displayed for keynum. Then go back and alter your code so that if the keynum is equal to the key code you observed for the enter key, you call the function.

[Jedi007]

I tried that

function checkit()
	{
	var keynum
		else if(e.which) // Netscape/Firefox/Opera
			{
			keynum = e.which
			}
	alert("1");
	}

doesn't work so alerting keynum for sure wont work. but when I replace the function with:

function checkit()
	{
	alert("1");
	}

it works.. ?