The following code is supposed to simply suppress any key press and add the pressed key to a div instead. This works fine on desktop, however on mobile (safari and chrome) event.key
is undefined.
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<input />
<div id="#test"></div>
<script>
var str = '';
var el = document.getElementById('#test');
document.addEventListener('keypress', function(event) {
str += event.key;
event.preventDefault();
el.innerHTML = str;
})
</script>
</body>
</html>
event.keyCode
and event.keyIdentifier
are both available but casting those to a string will give me unwanted results on different keyboard layouts and languages, especially with special characters.
Is there anyway to get the value of the key directly?
Here's a codepen example just in case: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/pryYyQ