JavaScript Enter key detection: Listen for keydown events on text input

Last update on April 17 2024 13:03:56 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript Event Handling: Exercise-9 with Solution

Write a JavaScript program that adds a keydown event listener to a text input to detect when the "Enter key" is pressed.

Sample Solution:

HTML and JavaScript Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <input type="text" id="textInput" placeholder="Press Enter...">
  <script>
    const textInput = document.getElementById('textInput');
    textInput.addEventListener('keydown', (event) => {
      if (event.key === 'Enter') {
        console.log('Enter key pressed!');
        // Perform desired actions here
      }
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

Output:

JavaScript Enter key detection: Listen for keydown events on text input.

Note: Executed on JS Bin

Explanation:

In the above exercise -

First we define an input element with the id "textInput". The JavaScript code retrieves this input element using document.getElementById('textInput') and assigns it to the textInput variable.
Next we attach an event listener to the text input using the addEventListener method. We specify the event type as "keydown" to detect when any key is pressed while the text input has focus.
Inside the event listener function, we check if the event.key property is equal to "Enter". If it is, we log a message to the console indicating that the Enter key was pressed.

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen javascript-event-handling-exercise-9 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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