Bug 28184

Summary:

keypress event not fired for DELETE key

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Matt Gaddis <gaddis>

Component:

WebCore Misc.

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

Severity:

Normal

CC:

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
test case html file	none

Matt Gaddis

Reported 2009-08-11 12:49:22 PDT

Created attachment 34583 [details] test case html file The scenario: Event listeners are attached to the document for keydown, keypress, and keyup events. In the attached file, input_document.html, watch the console for evidence of the events fired from inside an text input. When "1" is pressed: onkeydown charCode = 0 onkeypress charCode = 49 onkeyup charCode = 0 When DELETE is pressed: onkeydown charCode = 0 onkeyup charCode = 0 (note the missing onkeypress) Other observations: This behavior does not change when the listeners are attached to the text input. Safari 3 reports all three events: onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup when the DELETE key is pressed.

Attachments
test case html file (1.79 KB, text/html) 2009-08-11 12:49 PDT, Matt Gaddis	no flags	Details
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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2009-08-11 22:26:16 PDT

I don't think keypress is supposed to be dispatched for Delete. Does this work in Internet Explorer?

Matt Gaddis

Comment 2 2009-08-17 09:33:59 PDT

Firefox does respond with the 3 events for a DELETE key press. Opera does respond with the 3 events for a DELETE key press. IE responds with 2 events (keydown and keyup) for a DELETE key press.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 3 2009-08-17 09:56:28 PDT

Thank you for the additional info. For keyboard event dispatch, our intention is to match IE behavior as closely as possible.

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