Capture key press without placing an input element on the page?

Question

How to capture key press, e.g., Ctrl+Z, without placing an input element on the page in JavaScript? Seems that in IE, keypress and keyup events can only be bound to input el

Answer 1

For modern JS, use event.key!

document.addEventListener("keypress", function onPress(event) {
    if (event.key === "z" && event.ctrlKey) {
        // Do something awesome
    }
});

NOTE: The old properties (.keyCode and .which) are Deprecated.

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