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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:21:44+00:00

I googled and got the following codes on the Net.However, when I press a

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I googled and got the following codes on the Net.However, when I press a keyboard key,it is not displaying me an alert box. I want to get which character I have pressed in the alert box. How do I fix this?

<script type="text/javascript">

var charfield=document.getElementById("char")
charfield.onkeydown=function(e){
var e=window.event || e;
alert(e.keyCode);
}

</script>
</head>

<body id="char">

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to get the character typed, you must use the keypress event rather than the keydown event. Something like the following:

    var charfield = document.getElementById("char");
charfield.onkeypress = function(e) {
    e = e || window.event;
    var charCode = (typeof e.which == "number") ? e.which : e.keyCode;
    if (charCode > 0) {
        alert("Typed character: " + String.fromCharCode(charCode));
    }
};
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