KeyboardEvent in Chrome, keyCode is 0

Question

I am trying to set keyCode on dispatched event object .

On button click, event is raised on textbox control to simulating keydown event. Event is raised successfully

Answer 1

This happens because (as others have stated) the KeyboardEvent object (which uses charCode instead of keyCode) is being called instead of the Event object. When you are using:

function txtKeydown(e) {
    console.dir(e);
    console.log(e.keyCode);
}

if you're getting a 0 printed to the console, try using e.charCode instead of e.keyCode

refer to MDN web docs for more information regarding KeyboardEvent: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent