Whatthekeycode.com - quickly find a js keycode for any key

Key codes are pretty good for little things, but they break down pretty quickly if you want international support. In Mathquill, we ended up just using a hidden textarea and a setTimeout, with a few hilarious hacks. The comments and commit history are worth a read: <a href="https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill/blob/dev/src/textarea.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill/blob/dev/src/textarea...</a>

Nice, but fails for me with non-English characters on my keyboard, ğüşöçĞÜŞÖÇ, and can't differentiate i and ı.

Probably relevant to the discussion, the mousetrap library: <a href="http://craig.is/killing/mice" rel="nofollow">http://craig.is/killing/mice</a>

Heh, I've lost count of how many times I've written "document.onkeydown = function(e) { console.log(e.keyCode); }" to deal with this. This is probably easier, if I can remember it when I need it :)

DOM keycodes are kind of broken beyond repair[1]. They cannot be relied upon to determine precisely which character a user entered (even jQuery's charcode falls short here) because they do not take into account modifier keys, compositions, or locales.<p>[1] For a (detailed) explanation: <a href="http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html" rel="nofollow">http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html</a>

I made something like this a while ago <a href="http://elv1s.ru/files/js/key-code-detector.html" rel="nofollow">http://elv1s.ru/files/js/key-code-detector.html</a>

On an unrelated note, is there way to forbid sites to override ctrl+w? I hate it when a web page is not closed with a short cut.<p>edit: I am using firefox

It's kind of ironic that you can't bookmark it in Chrome using the ctrl+d shortcut when this is one of those perfect bookmark tools.

This: <a href="http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-codes-key-codes" rel="nofollow">http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-co...</a> was sitting in my bookmarks for quite some time now... And will be there, because I use vrome which seems to capture the key presses when there's no input focused :(

Nice! But shift-key doesn't work. For example if I want to get the code for +

Anyone ever noticed that the print screen key is from what I can see, the only key on a conventional qwerty keyboard that doesn't have an event code? What's the reasoning for that?

The key that is being pressed should be shown on the page somewhere - though it would make it look uglier. But for a utility like this, probably won't matter all that much.

Doesn't work in IE8. I know IE8 isn't exactly the latest and greatest web browser but some of us are stuck using it at work!

it would be nice if it can simultaneously display appropriate JS code to bind for a particular key. Also, if it can recognize key combos like ctrl-alt-s