Keyboard event character code

Table of contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Demo
• Resources

General info

If you press something on the keyboard it will return unicode code on the keyboard.

Technologies

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript (ES6+)

Demo

• see here

Resources

• Dmitri Pavlutin: What every JavaScript developer should know about Unicode
• flaviocopes: Unicode in JavaScript
• Mathias Bynens: JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16?
• Bringing `KeyboardEvent.key` and `KeyboardEvent.keyCode` Altogether for the Best Keyboard Interaction Experience
• MDN: KeyboardEvent
• MDN: String.prototype.charCodeAt()
• CSS Tricks: KeyboardEvent Value (keyCodes, metaKey, etc)
• Medium: Difference Between ASCII and Unicode
• Stackoverflow: What's the difference between ASCII and Unicode?
• Stackoverflow: JavaScript KeyCode vs CharCode
• Stackoverflow: .keyCode vs. .which
• Stackoverflow: KeyboardEvent.keyCode deprecated. What does this mean in practice?
• JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events
• What’s New with KeyboardEvents? Keys and Codes!
• W3C: UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values
• w3C: UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values