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		kzrdude on May 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite 3 Fiddle That's pretty trippy, I have my caps lock globally disabled (mapped to ctrl) in X config, but inside that v86 window, caps lock works. And it uses some hardcoded (US) keymap, too. I'm surprised, I didn't think browsers would receive those detailed keycodes.

dorianmariefr on May 26, 2022 [–]

`event.key` returns the key with the mappings, e.g. "E"

`event.keyCode` returns the physical key, e.g. "KeyE"

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