How do I capture keystrokes on the web?

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Published on 2010-12-26T04:39:38Z Indexed on 2010/12/26 6:54 UTC
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Using PHP, JS, or HTML (or something similar) how would I capture keystokes? Such as if the user presses ctrl+f or maybe even just f, a certain function will happen.

++++++++++++++++++++++++EDIT+++++++++++++++++++ Ok, so is this correct, because I can't get it to work. And I apologize for my n00bness is this is an easy question, new to jQuery and still learning more and more about JS.

<script>    
var element = document.getElementById('capture');
    element.onkeypress = function(e) { 
       var ev = e || event;
       if(ev.keyCode == 70) {
          alert("hello");
       }
    }
</script>
<div id="capture">
Hello, Testing 123
</div>

++++++++++++++++EDIT++++++++++++++++++

Here is everything, but I can't get it to work:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<style>
* {
margin: 0px
}  

div {
    height: 250px;
    width: 630px;
    overflow: hidden;
    vertical-align: top;
    position: relative;
    background-color: #999;
}
  iframe {
    position: absolute;
    left: -50px;
    top: -130px;
  }
</style>
<script>
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].onkeyup = function(e) { 
   var ev = e || event;
   if(ev.keyCode == 70 && ev.ctrlKey) { //control+f
      alert("hello");
   }
}
</script>
<div id="capture">
Hello, Testing 123<!--<iframe src="http://www.pandora.com/" scrolling="no" width="1000" height="515"frameborder="0"></iframe>-->
</div>

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