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Geekpedia » JavaScript Knowledge Base » A list of keys and the JavaScript char codes they correspond to

A list of keys and the JavaScript char codes they correspond to

On Saturday, August 13th 2005 at 01:09 PM

By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)

(Rated 5 with 2 votes)

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This table is especially useful for those who want to capture the key press event in the browser window. These are the char codes JavaScript uses, and the keys they bind to:

Char	Key Name
8	Backspace
9	Tab
13	Enter
16	Shift
17	Ctrl
18	Alt
19	Pause
20	Caps Lock
27	Escape
33	Page Up
34	Page Down
35	End
36	Home
37	Arrow Left
38	Arrow Up
39	Arrow Right
40	Arrow Down
45	Insert
46	Delete
48	0
49	1
50	2
51	3
52	4
53	5
54	6
55	7
56	8
57	9
65	A
66	B
67	C
68	D
69	E
70	F
71	G
72	H
73	I
74	J
75	K
76	L
77	M
78	N
79	O
80	P
81	Q
82	R
83	S
84	T
85	U
86	V
87	W
88	X
89	Y
90	Z
91	Left Windows
92	Right Windows
93	Context Menu
96	NumPad 0
97	NumPad 1
98	NumPad 2
99	NumPad 3
100	NumPad 4
101	NumPad 5
102	NumPad 6
103	NumPad 7
104	NumPad 8
105	NumPad 9
106	NumPad *
107	NumPad +
109	NumPad -
110	NumPad .
111	NumPad /
112	F1
113	F2
114	F3
115	F4
116	F5
117	F6
118	F7
119	F8
120	F9
121	F10
122	F11
123	F12
144	Num Lock
145	Scroll Lock
186	;
187	=
188	,
189	-
190	.
191	/
192	`
219	[
220	\
221	]
222	'

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by jim nesbitt on Thursday, March 30th 2006 at 03:31 AM

At last - This must be about the only place on the web this exists

Many thanks Andrei

Jim

by Dimitris on Tuesday, May 23rd 2006 at 03:12 PM

And What about Ctrl+Q , Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S key codes?

Thanks, another Jim (Dimitris)

by John Cruz on Friday, January 26th 2007 at 03:26 PM

Looked over for this.. Thank you very much!!
John

by on Wednesday, February 21st 2007 at 09:43 AM

by mike breuner on Thursday, June 7th 2007 at 09:49 PM

Excellent. Useful.

Any possibility of posting where this comes from. Is there a Standard or Manual somewhere?

by Neil Poole on Friday, June 8th 2007 at 04:32 AM

Very useful. You could add SpaceBar=32

by thanhnx on Friday, February 29th 2008 at 11:11 AM

Wonderful ! Really useful.

by Stiba on Sunday, January 4th 2009 at 01:43 AM

function getCharDesc(char_code)
{
switch(char_code)
{
case 8:return "backspace";
case 9:return "tab";
case 13:return "enter";
case 16:return "shift";
case 17:return "ctrl";
case 18:return "alt";
case 19:return "pause/break";
case 20:return "caps lock";
case 27:return "escape";
case 33:return "page up";
case 34:return "page down";
case 35:return "end";
case 36:return "home";
case 37:return "left arrow";
case 38:return "up arrow";
case 39:return "right arrow";
case 40:return "down arrow";
case 45:return "insert";
case 46:return "delete";
case 48:return "0";
case 49:return "1";
case 50:return "2";
case 51:return "3";
case 52:return "4";
case 53:return "5";
case 54:return "6";
case 55:return "7";
case 56:return "8";
case 57:return "9";
case 65:return "A";
case 66:return "B";
case 67:return "C";
case 68:return "D";
case 69:return "E";
case 70:return "F";
case 71:return "G";
case 72:return "H";
case 73:return "I";
case 74:return "J";
case 75:return "K";
case 76:return "L";
case 77:return "M";
case 78:return "N";
case 79:return "O";
case 80:return "P";
case 81:return "Q";
case 82:return "R";
case 83:return "S";
case 84:return "T";
case 85:return "U";
case 86:return "V";
case 87:return "W";
case 88:return "X";
case 89:return "Y";
case 90:return "Z";
case 91:return "left window key";
case 92:return "right window key";
case 93:return "select key";
case 96:return "numpad 0";
case 97:return "numpad 1";
case 98:return "numpad 2";
case 99:return "numpad 3";
case 100:return "numpad 4";
case 101:return "numpad 5";
case 102:return "numpad 6";
case 103:return "numpad 7";
case 104:return "numpad 8";
case 105:return "numpad 9";
case 106:return "multiply";
case 107:return "add";
case 109:return "subtract";
case 110:return "decimal point";
case 111:return "divide";
case 112:return "F1";
case 113:return "F2";
case 114:return "F3";
case 115:return "F4";
case 116:return "F5";
case 117:return "F6";
case 118:return "F7";
case 119:return "F8";
case 120:return "F9";
case 121:return "F10";
case 122:return "F11";
case 123:return "F12";
case 144:return "num lock";
case 145:return "scroll lock";
case 186:return "semi-colon";
case 187:return "equal sign";
case 188:return "comma";
case 189:return "dash";
case 190:return "period";
case 191:return "forward slash";
case 192:return "grave accent";
case 219:return "open bracket";
case 220:return "back slash";
case 221:return "close braket";
case 222:return "single quote";
}
}

by Jean Dreesen on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 03:58 PM

Did I overlook print screen? Where is it?

by JohnM on Thursday, September 10th 2009 at 09:36 PM

I think you missed the lowercase letters. :)

by Corrine on Friday, September 18th 2009 at 12:00 PM

I might be missing something, but this does not work in IE8

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:58:59 UTC

"'keyCode' is null or not an object"

by Corrine on Friday, September 18th 2009 at 01:29 PM

Nevermind, there was a naming issue. It's all working quite well. :)

by Savvy on Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 10:58 PM

This code for printting comma if we press dot in the numpad

<html>
<heaD>
<script language="javascript">
function keypress1 ()
{
var e=window.event || e
unicode = e.charCode ? e.charCode : e.keyCode;
if (unicode==46)
{ return (e.charCode ? e.charCode=44 : e.keyCode=44); }
}
function keypress2 ()
{
var e=window.event || e
unicode = e.charCode ? e.charCode : e.keyCode;
if (unicode==46)
{ return (e.charCode ? e.charCode=46 : e.keyCode=46); }
}
function keyDown(e){
if (!e){
e = event
}
var code=e.keyCode;
if(code==110)
return document.onkeypress=keypress1
else if(code=188)
{ document.onkeypress=keypress2 }
}
document.onkeydown = keyDown
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=text>
</body>
</html>