RESOLVED INVALID 28184
keypress event not fired for DELETE key 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28184
Summary keypress event not fired for DELETE key
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.
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test case html file (1.79 KB, text/html)
2009-08-11 12:49 PDT, Matt Gaddis 		no flags
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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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