I am trying to add an event listener to an icon in React and it’s not working. My code: I also have an onClick handler on the same button that functions just fine, so I’m really confused as to why the onKeyDown doesn’t fire. Appreciate any help anyone can provide! Answer Using onKeyDown on a certain element will require focus
Tag: keyboard-events
What is the best way to make these buttons insert specific text into a text field?
I’ve made a virtual keyboard that has Russian characters and Latin characters. I want to make each character key on the virtual keyboard (.keyLetter) insert the Russian character (.primary) into the text field. Additionally, I want to make each physical keyboard keypress activate the corresponding buttons onscreen, so that the user can type by clicking the onscreen keys, or by
How to listen to keyboard events in electron without interrupting default behavior?
I was trying to listen to Ctrl-C event using electron globalShortcut module, but as it seems, electron is re-writing default behavior automatically (without features like preventDefault in plain javascript). Here’s what I did: Is there an another way to listen to global keyboard shortcut events using electron without interrupting their default behavior? Answer This seems to be Electron’s expected behaviour
Basic keyboard functionality for movement of object
I am unable to figure out what is wrong with my code. I have another example I was able to get to work but it didn’t use constructor objects and this one does. That’s about the only different I can think of. I’ve tweaked it in many ways but no luck. Please help me understand why it isn’t working. Answer
keyCode and which are deprecated – so why is that not working?
According to MDN Web Docs KeyboardEvent and Google Updates KeyboardEvent key and code are implemented while keyCode and which are deprecated. With that in mind I should be able to dispatch keydown event as below: Unfortunately it doesn’t work whilst if I add keyCode additionally this script works perfectly. Object with keyCode: Am I missing something? keyCode and which are
Setting OS Specific Keybindings – Cmd on Mac and Ctrl on Everything Else
When configuring Ace (the text editor), you can use OS specific keybindings, like {win: “Ctrl-Esc”, mac: “Cmd-Esc”}. This shows that you can have OS specific keybindings in JavaScript, but how is it done? I would like to create shortcuts that use Cmd on OS X and Ctrl on other systems. Answer Unfortunately at this time there is no JavaScript API
Automatically convert two dashes into an — in TinyMCE
I’m looking for a TinyMCE plugin or other custom solution which will convert — into — automatically. Ideally the solution would not require processing the entire TinyMCE contents on every keyPress/keyUp event, but instead only check when the user has either cut, pasted, or typed -. Right now I’m using something like the following, and it’s a little slow when
How to detect if the pressed key will produce a character inside an text-box?
I have a regular text-box: I use jQuery to handle key-related events: The user focuses on a text-box and presses various keys on his keyboard (the usual ones: letters, numbers, SHIFT, BACKSPACE, SPACE, …). I need to detect when the user presses a key that is going to increase the length of the text-box value. For example, the “A” key
How to find the key code for a specific key
What’s the easiest way to find the keycode for a specific key press? Are there any good online tools that just capture any key event and show the code? I want to try and find the key codes for special keys on a mobile device with a web browser, so an online tool would be great. Answer Here’s your online
Handling key-press events (F1-F12) using JavaScript and jQuery, cross-browser
I want to handle F1-F12 keys using JavaScript and jQuery. I am not sure what pitfalls there are to avoid, and I am not currently able to test implementations in any other browsers than Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox 3. Any suggestions to a full cross-browser solution? Something like a well-tested jQuery library or maybe just vanilla