> Not events generally, keydown events specifically, which do not fire on child ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		susam 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just use a button > Not events generally, keydown events specifically, which do not fire on child elements of the document. Are you sure? I have a 17 year old HTML tool written using plain, vanilla JavaScript where keydown on a child element seems to have been working as expected. https://susam.net/quickqwerty.html https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty/blob/1.2.0/quickqwerty.... Nice article, by the way!

skrebbel 58 days ago [–]

I think that’s because it’s an input and not a div, so it can get focus. Im not sure whether tabindex is enough to make a div do that too, article suggests no

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact