The keyup
event is fired when a key is released.
Bubbles | Yes |
---|---|
Cancelable | Yes |
Interface | KeyboardEvent |
Event handler property | onkeyup |
The keydown
and keyup
events provide a code indicating which key is pressed, while keypress
indicates which character was entered. For example, a lowercase "a" will be reported as 65 by keydown
and keyup
, but as 97 by keypress
. An uppercase "A" is reported as 65 by all events.
Since Firefox 65, the keyup
and keydown
events are now fired during IME composition, to improve cross-browser compatibility for CJKT users (bug 354358. To ignore all keyup
events that are part of composition, do something like this (229 is a special value set for a keyCode
relating to an event that has been processed by an IME):
eventTarget.addEventListener("keyup", event => { if (event.isComposing || event.keyCode === 229) { return; } // do something });