Bug 111824 – Inconsistency on onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup events fired

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Jose Lejin PJ]

This is about onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup events fired in HTML page by a key stroke.
Please refer attached sample page KeyEvent.html


In different browsers behavior on these events are different.

Chrome fires onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup events on visible character stroke and onkeydown,onkeyup on other key stroke.

IE fires onkeydown, onkeypress events on visible character stroke and only onkeydown on other key stroke.

On safari behavior is same as Chrome except, load the page and press enter on address bar, it fires just onkeyup (Once focus is on page and do key stroke, behavior is same as Chrome.)

[Jose Lejin PJ]

Created attachment 192154 [details]
Sample html test file

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

What is the bug you would like fixed? WebKit behavior is intentional. The difference between Safari and Chrome is more of an application issue, so it's outside the scope of webkit.org.

I'm surprised that you don't get keyup events in IE in your testing, I'm pretty sure I've been seeing them the last time I tried.

[Jose Lejin PJ]

I tested is on IE 8. You can try opening on attached html page in IE. Didn't observe onkeyup event. Anyway IE behavior is out of scope here.


If the difference between Safari and Chrome is more of an "application issue", this bug can be terminated. Not applicable to webkit !

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

OK, thank you for the clarification.

[Lucas Forschler]

Mass move bugs into the DOM component.