Keycode is always zero in Chrome for Android

Question

I need to detect the keycode for a custom search box on my website, but the keycode always returns as zero on Chrome for Android (except for backspace, which returns 8). Has

Answer 1

I faced this issue and this is how I figured out how to solve the problem.

• First, you need to enable USB debugging onto your Android phone so you can see the logs of your browser on your desktop machine.
• Second, refresh your web app on your phone and inside your console on the desktop type "monitorEvents(document)" or whatever element you want to inspect.
• Do the action you want to inspect on your phone.

And this is how I found that the keydown event was actually fired by a unique event called "textInput" which contains the information inside event.originalEvent.data.

Hope this saves you time and good luck!