KeyEvent

The type of mouse event.

Values:

• 'keydown', 'keyup'

Type:

• String

The character representation of the key that caused this key event, taking into account the current key-modifiers (e.g. shift, control, caps-lock, etc.)

Type:

• String

The key that caused this key event, either as a lower-case character or special key descriptor.

Values:

• 'enter', 'space', 'shift', 'control', 'alt', 'meta', 'caps-lock', 'left', 'up', 'right', 'down', 'escape', 'delete', …

Type:

• String

Returns:

• String — a string representation of the key event

The time at which the event was created, in milliseconds since the epoch.

Read only.

Type:

• Number

The current state of the keyboard modifiers.

Read only.

Type:

• object

See also:

• Key.modifiers

Cancels the event if it is cancelable, without stopping further propagation of the event.

Prevents further propagation of the current event.

Cancels the event if it is cancelable, and stops stopping further propagation of the event. This is has the same effect as calling both stopPropagation() and preventDefault().

Any handler can also return false to indicate that stop() should be called right after.