onkeypress event

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Fires when the user presses an alphanumeric key.

HTML Attribute	<element onkeypress = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onkeypress = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onkeypress", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("keypress", handler, useCapture)

As of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, the onkeypress event fires and can be canceled for the following keys:

Returns a number specifying the Unicode value of the key that was pressed.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

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