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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:39:59+00:00

Using Internet Explorer on Windows I have an onkeypress event detecting text entered into

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Using Internet Explorer on Windows I have an onkeypress event detecting text entered into a text box. However when entering Chinese characters this event doesn’t fire. Has anyone encountered this or have suggestions on working around this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Based on this JSFiddle, it seems the keydown event does not fire as one might expect. I would use the keyup event (though, you’ll still get partially entered characters).

    From my experiment, I got:

    • An event for “ni” instead of 你
    • An event ‘你ha’
    • An event for 你哈 (since the alert killed my input to complete ‘hao’)

    Basically, Windows and IE are not playing nicely with character input. I would suggest using the change event if it’s possible in your framework.

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