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KeyboardEvent.isComposing

Category

User input

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 56)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Allows an app to determine if there is an active composition outstanding for keyboard events being generated without monitoring composition events directly.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#dom-keyboardevent-iscomposing
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/625686

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/isComposing

Samples: https://cdn.rawgit.com/w3c/uievents/gh-pages/tools/key-event-viewer.html

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