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onKeyListener not working with soft keyboard (Android)

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

I don’t believe an OnKeyListener gets called at all with the software keyboard. It has something to do with the software keyboard being an IME device and IME devices possibly being things other than keyboards. It seems to make onKeyListener pretty much useless though, since it only works on phones with hardware keyboards. I worked … Read more

How to capture a backspace on the onkeydown event

May 22, 2023 by Tarik

Try this: document.addEventListener(“keydown”, KeyCheck); //or however you are calling your method function KeyCheck(event) { var KeyID = event.keyCode; switch(KeyID) { case 8: alert(“backspace”); break; case 46: alert(“delete”); break; default: break; } }

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