Closed Bug 265961 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"event.keyCode" does not return a proper value, whereas "event.charCode" does. They should be equivalent (?).

Categories

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Form Manager
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: tom.uijldert, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Browse the HTML given below. On entering any keyboard-character, the displayed
"keyCode" remains at 0. This should be equivalent to "charCode" (according to
documentation anyway...).
----------
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15">

<script type="text/javascript">

function CharCheck(e)
{
    document.frm.text.value = "keycode = " + e.keyCode + "    charcode = " +
e.charCode;
}

</script>
</head>

<body>
<form method="post" action="http://bladibla.cgi" name="frm">

<table border="0">
<tbody valign="top">
<tr>
       <td>Text area input: </td>
       <td><textarea rows="1" cols="60" wrap="soft"
onkeypress="CharCheck(event);"></textarea>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>Text area output:</td>
       <td><textarea rows="1" cols="60" wrap="soft" name="text"
onkeypress="CharCheck(event);"></textarea>
	</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</form>
</body></html>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Cut&Paste the html given in "Details" into a file "tst.html" (or whatever
your preference)
2. Start browsing the document.
3. Enter any keystrokes in the input-form, observe the result.

Actual Results:  
See "Details".

Expected Results:  
Display the same numerical code twice.

-
(In reply to comment #0)
> Browse the HTML given below. On entering any keyboard-character, the displayed
> "keyCode" remains at 0. This should be equivalent to "charCode" (according to
> documentation anyway...).

You'll probably find http://www.mozilla.org/editor/key-event-spec.html or
http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/events/default4.asp more useful as documentation
for Mozilla key events. keypress sets charCode to the actual character produced
by one or more keys being pressed, keydown/keyup sets keyCode to a particular
key on the keyboard.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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