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@wordpress/keycodes

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Keycodes

Keycodes utilities for WordPress, used to check the key pressed in events like onKeyDown. Contains keycodes constants for keyboard keys like DOWN, UP, ENTER, etc.

Installation

Install the module

npm install @wordpress/keycodes --save

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Usage

Check which key was used in an onKeyDown event:

import { DOWN, ENTER } from '@wordpress/keycodes';

// [...]

onKeyDown( event ) {
    const { keyCode } = event;
    
    if ( keyCode === DOWN ) {
        alert( 'You pressed the down arrow!' );
    } else if ( keyCode === ENTER ) {
        alert( 'You pressed the enter key!' );
    } else {
        alert( 'You pressed another key.' );
    }
}

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