The Home key has a keyCode of 36 on my PC in Firefox, which is the character code for "$", which would make it impossible to distinguish between the user pressing the Home key and the user typing …

That's what is so annoying about all this. All major browsers support keyCode, but try do a check for the .key property, which is the recommended one, and hardly any use it!

Sep 18, 2009 · Secondly, you get different sets of values in a keypress event to what you get in a keyup or keydown event. I recommend this page as a useful resource. As a summary: If you're interested in …

The key variable in this switch is either e.which or e.keyCode. Those two are deprecated, so you should use e.key instead, which will also make your code more readable by turning those numbers into …

Apr 8, 2011 · function checkKey(e) { var event = window.event ? window.event : e; console.log(event.keyCode) } Though it worked for every other key, it didn't for arrow keys (maybe …

event.keyCode is 0 in Gecko (Seamonkey, Firefox) on keypress for keys that return a character. event.charCode is only supported on keydown and keyup by Internet Explorer (Mac).

Sep 23, 2009 · When testing JavaScript in Firefox 3.5, I have access to constants such as KeyEvent.DOM_VK_D, but not in Google Chrome. Is there a cross-browser way of accessing these …

They (e.keyCode) are different for keyup and keydown because these events are related to the physical keys and those keys are different. If you use e.which from keypress, you'll get the same values for …

Jan 14, 2019 · I know that when working with JavaScript or jQuery. I can add an event listener on an object to call a function when a key is pressed. However, if the function is launched from HTML, as in …

JavaScript keycodes and Unicode charcodes are not the same thing! In particular, the numeric keypad keys return a different keycode from the ordinary number keys (since they are different keys) while …