This may be the empty string if the browser or device doesn't know the keyboard's locale.
Although I haven't tested this exhaustively by any means, it looks as though the KeyUp event doesn't fire for the Delete key if pressing it deletes selected text from the text box. I'm seeing similar behavior in Access 2003. Returns a string representing a locale string indicating the locale the keyboard is configured for. The 'ABC' is deleted but the KeyUp event does not trigger Please tell me there is a fix to this. Returns a string representing the key value of the key represented by the event. event on input or keydown or on paste value or on change jquery. Returns a boolean value that is true if the event is fired between after compositionstart and before compositionend. Returns a boolean value that is true if the Ctrl key was active when the key event was generated. It can be attached to any element, but the event is only sent to the element that has the focus. The keyup event is sent to an element when the user releases a key on the keyboard. If you want to display the correct keystrokes to the user, you can use Keyboard.getLayoutMap(). bind('keyup', handler) in the first variation, and. Warning: This ignores the user's keyboard layout, so that if the user presses the key at the "Y" position in a QWERTY keyboard layout (near the middle of the row above the home row), this will always return "KeyY", even if the user has a QWERTZ keyboard (which would mean the user expects a "Z" and all the other properties would indicate a "Z") or a Dvorak keyboard layout (where the user would expect an "F"). Non-Standard MSManipulationStateChanged.Non-Standard Deprecated MozMousePixelScroll.Non-Standard Deprecated createShadowRoot().