This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The KeyboardEvent.ctrlKey read-only property returns a boolean value that indicates if the control key was pressed (true) or not (false) when the event occurred.
A boolean value.
<p> Press any character key, with or without holding down the CTRL key.<br /> You can also use the SHIFT key together with the CTRL key. </p> <pre id="output"></pre>
const output = document.getElementById("output");
function showChar(e) {
output.textContent = `Key KeyDown: "${e.key}"
CTRL key KeyDown: ${e.ctrlKey}
`;
}
document.addEventListener("keydown", showChar);
| Specification |
|---|
| UI Events> # dom-keyboardevent-ctrlkey> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
ctrlKey |
1 | 12 | 1.5 | ≤12.1 | 1.2 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/ctrlKey