The compositionend
event is fired when a text composition system such as an input method editor completes or cancels the current composition session.
For example, this event could be fired after a user finishes entering a Chinese character using a Pinyin IME.
const inputElement = document.querySelector('input[type="text"]');
inputElement.addEventListener('compositionend', (event) => {
console.log(`generated characters were: ${event.data}`);
});
HTML
<div class="control">
<label for="name">First select textbox, then to open IME:<ul><li>on macOS type <kbd>option</kbd> + <kbd>`</kbd></li><li>on Windows type <kbd>windows</kbd> + <kbd>.</kbd></li></ul></label>
<input type="text" id="example" name="example">
</div>
<div class="event-log">
<label>Event log:</label>
<textarea readonly class="event-log-contents" rows="8" cols="25"></textarea>
<button class="clear-log">Clear</button>
</div>
JS
const inputElement = document.querySelector('input[type="text"]');
const log = document.querySelector('.event-log-contents');
const clearLog = document.querySelector('.clear-log');
clearLog.addEventListener('click', () => {
log.textContent = '';
});
function handleEvent(event) {
log.textContent = log.textContent + `${event.type}: ${event.data}\n`;
}
inputElement.addEventListener('compositionstart', handleEvent);
inputElement.addEventListener('compositionupdate', handleEvent);
inputElement.addEventListener('compositionend', handleEvent);
Result