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KeyboardEvent: ctrlKey property

Baseline Widely available

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.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

<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);

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/ctrlKey