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In this articleKeyboardEvent
getModifierState()
initKeyboardEvent()
DeprecatedCompositionEvent
FocusEvent
InputEvent
MouseEvent
MouseScrollEvent
Non-standard DeprecatedMutationEvent
Non-standard DeprecatedTextEvent
DeprecatedUIEvent
WheelEvent
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. Itâs been available across browsers since January 2020.
The KeyboardEvent.isComposing
read-only property returns a boolean value indicating if the event is fired within a composition session, i.e., after compositionstart
and before compositionend
.
A boolean.
Examplesjs
const kbdEvent = new KeyboardEvent("syntheticKey", false);
console.log(kbdEvent.isComposing); // return false
Specifications Specification UI Events .
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