How to detect control keypress/keydown inside textarea?

Asked Mar 25 '22 at 14:37

Active Mar 25 '22 at 14:37

Viewed 64 times

Is it possible to detect e.ctrlKey inside a text input field? As soon as the cursor is inside a text field, I only get keyup events:

The text field is a textarea:

The event listener is set correctly because I detect keypress events for normal letter keys, as well as keydown events when the textarea is not focused.

asked Mar 25 '22 at 14:37

Florian Walther

6,237
5
46
104

Add your listener with `true` in the third parameter. – wOxxOm Mar 25 '22 at 14:37
@wOxxOm Dude you are an absolute legend. How do you know all this stuff? – Florian Walther Mar 25 '22 at 14:39
It's just the first event phase, [more info](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4616694/what-is-event-bubbling-and-capturing). – wOxxOm Mar 25 '22 at 14:42

How to detect control keypress/keydown inside textarea?

0 Answers0