What are the JavaScript KeyCodes?

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Web_Designer picture Web_Designer · Apr 9, 2011 · Viewed 108.1k times · Source

What keycodes are available for JavaScript? If they're not the same for all browsers, please list the keycodes for each browser.

Answer

user736373 picture user736373 · May 3, 2011

keyCodes are different from the ASCII values. For a complete keyCode reference, see http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html

For example, Numpad numbers have keyCodes 96 - 105, which corresponds to the beginning of lowercase alphabet in ASCII. This could lead to problems in validating numeric input.

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