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UIEvents KeyboardEvent |key| attribute

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 51)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The KeyboardEvent |key| attribute contains information about the character being generated by the key event.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events-key/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227231

Docs: http://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#interface-KeyboardEvent https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/key

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/keyboardevent-key-attribute/ https://w3c.github.io/uievents/tools/key-event-viewer.html

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