#1064 onkeypress & event.key : some keys are not reporting the good code - mootools.core

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onkeypress & event.key : some keys are not reporting the good code

Reported by Tokiros | November 4th, 2010 @ 10:56 AM | in 2.0 (closed)

My situation :

Belgian Keyboard, IE7 (yes, i know...), Windows XP SP3.

Belgian keyboard layout :

When i type on the key '1 / &' on my keyboard the event.key contains 'up'
the key '4 / '' gives 'right'
the key '5 / (' gives 'down'
the 'ù / %' gives 'left' for % (so shift+ù)
the '; / .' gives 'delete' (so shift+;)
and probably others wrong keys are reported

Test case : http://jsfiddle.net/uLtpc/

I've also tested it with Chrome 7.0.517.41 beta for the same behavior, Firefox 3.6.11 also
Mootools 1.3 have the same problem

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Tokiros November 4th, 2010 @ 10:57 AM
I forgot to say that the tests were done with Mootools 1.2.5
Arian November 4th, 2010 @ 11:16 AM
- Milestone set to “1.3.1”
- Milestone order changed from “816” to “0”
Could you make a short list of the results you get of the keycodes (event.code) and the keyname (event.key). Because as far as I know the keycodes shouldn't change across different keyboard layouts.

Can you try to include MooTools More 1.3 as well in your jsfiddle, that adds some more keycode/key combinations.

Tokiros November 4th, 2010 @ 11:43 AM

I've updated it to include more 1.2.5.1, and it does the same thing, with more keys beeing reported badly

   Key    event.key    event.code
   &      up           38
   "      pagedown     34
   '      right        39
   (      down         40
   !      pageup       33
   #      end          35
   $      home         36
   %      left         37
   .      delete       46

http://jsfiddle.net/uLtpc/1/ for mootools 1.2.5
and http://jsfiddle.net/uLtpc/2/ for mootools 1.3

Christoph Pojer November 9th, 2010 @ 06:17 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
- Milestone changed from “1.3.1” to “2.0”
- Assigned user set to “Valerio”
- Milestone order changed from “8” to “0”
I don't think we will fix this before 2.0 comes around. This is possibly hard to detect too because every browser chooses to work differently here :) In any case, for now, use the event that works better for you. From personal experience keypress is usually more correct.
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deos December 16th, 2010 @ 09:41 AM
just wanted to add, im having the same issue on a keyboard with german layout (mac)
im getting the exact same results as shown above in firefox, chrome, safari, opera and IE8 (on win7 in parallels) - testet with the link above (mootools 1.3 version)
this a quite serious bug imo, please take care of it soon
ibolmo January 19th, 2012 @ 08:47 AM
- State changed from “open” to “invalid”
See: https://github.com/mootools/mootools-core/issues/2183#issuecomment-...