This event occurs when user presses a key , at the time of pressing the key this event gets fired. When user presses a key from keyboard the key goes down and as soon as the key goes down this event gets fired and can be trapped by using onkeydown event. A programmer can get the key pressed by the user before flashing the character on the screen.
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<title>events </title>
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<body bgcolor=green text=yellow>
<h4 align =center> Type character in the textbox </h4>
<blockquote> You will notice that the dialogbox appears before the character appears in the textbox </blockquote>
name : <input type="text" name="t1" onkeydown="ff()">
<script>
function ff()
{
alert("you pressed "+ event.keyCode)
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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