How to catch event.keyCode and change it to another keyCode?

Question

I have checked other questions here at SO, however they do not answer my question. I want to simply catch certain keyCode and replace it with another. I am working with char

Answer 1

While the properties on the KeyboardEvent instance is READ ONLY, you can override KeyboardEvent's prototype and create a getter for whatever you want to change. Here is an example which changes the keycodes of hjkl to act like arrow keys.

Object.defineProperty(KeyboardEvent.prototype, 'keyCode', {
    get: function() {
        switch (this.key) {
            case 'h': return 37; // left
            case 'j': return 40; // down
            case 'k': return 38; // up
            case 'l': return 39; // right
            default: return this.which
        }
    }
})