onKeyPress in chrome

Inside of an input field, onKeyPress isn't tiggered in Chrome for Backspace (and possibly other keys). I know this isn't a React bug, but rather a browser inconsistency that might be normalized.

[fabiomcosta]

@kevinmctigue you are probably looking for the onChange event http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/dom-differences.html.
It's different from the browsers' implementations, it fires every time a physical key is pressed (I'm not talking about the onkeypress event here).
Let us know if your issue is solved by using onChange.
Thank you!

In my case I needed Backspace and Enter to fire the event even if the box
is empty. onChange wouldn't fire in these cases. I chose to go with
onKeyDown for this behavior cross-browser, which did solve it.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Fabio M. Costa notifications@github.comwrote:

@kevinmctigue https://github.com/kevinmctigue you are probably looking
for the onChange event
http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/dom-differences.html.
It's different from the browsers' implementations, it fires every time a
physical key is pressed (I'm not talking about the onkeypress event here).
Let us know if your issue is solved by using onChange.
Thank you!

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[syranide]

FYI, onKeyPress is deprecated in the next version of the HTML standard (considered a legacy event), so there's no use in relying on it, unless you specifically want charCode.

@kevinmctigue It's also worth noting that React will have partial HTML5 KeyboardEvent.key support in the next release.

[sophiebits]

#776 makes it so keypress isn't triggered in any browser for special keys.