onkeydown event for document (JavaScript 1.0)

Fires when a user presses down on a key while the element has focus.

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Examples having uses of JavaScript event 'onkeydown'

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JavaScript Keyboard Events

This event are fired when a key is pressed. IE 8 and earlier use event.keyCode to retrieve the key that was pressed down, while Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera use event.which.