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Asked: 2026-06-01T22:33:57+00:00

I use keydown event in jquery, but the problem it’s stateless for input language.

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I use keydown event in jquery, but the problem it’s stateless for input language. It’s can’t determine the input is in English language or in Hebrew or Arabic…?
it returns only keycode, and I can’t get character.

Is there any solution??

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  1. Editorial Team

    To determine the actual character, you should use the keypress event instead of keydown. While keydown provides you with a key code, keypress indicates the character which was entered by the user.

    Another difference is that when the user presses and holds a key, a keydown event is triggered only once, but separate keypress events are triggered for each inserted character.

    Here’s an example of using the keypress event:

    <body>
<form>
  <input id="target" type="text" />
</form>

<script src="http://api.jquery.com/scripts/events.js"></script>
<script>
  $("#target").keypress(function(event) {
    var charCode = event.which; // charCode will contain the code of the character inputted
    var theChar = String.fromCharCode(charCode); // theChar will contain the actual character
  });
</script>
</body>
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