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View key-down / key-up event not firing on IE 11

RodrigoFelga — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:04:45 GMT

The view on key-down / on key-up event is not firing on Internet Explorer 11. Anyone having the same issue?

Re: View key-down / key-up event not firing on IE 11

ChrisSmith7 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:16:31 GMT

I can reproduce the issue on my end... Anyone who wants to see can use the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no">
  <title>Intro to MapView - Create a 2D map - 4.5</title>
  <style>
    html,
    body,
    #viewDiv {
      padding: 0;
      margin: 0;
      height: 100%;
      width: 100%;
    }
  </style>

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://js.arcgis.com/4.5/esri/css/main.css">
  <script src="https://js.arcgis.com/4.5/"></script>

  <script>
    require([
      "esri/Map",
      "esri/views/MapView",
      "dojo/domReady!"
    ], function(Map, MapView) {

      var map = new Map({
        basemap: "streets"
      });

      var view = new MapView({
        container: "viewDiv",
        map: map,
        zoom: 4,
        center: [15, 65] // longitude, latitude
      });
      
      //console not logging in IE
      view.on("key-down", function(evt){
       console.log("key-down", evt);
      });

    });
  </script>
</head>

<body>
  <div id="viewDiv"></div>
</body>
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Re: View key-down / key-up event not firing on IE 11

RodrigoFelga — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:28:31 GMT

It works on IE 11 running on Windows 10 but not in IE 11 running on Windows 7

Re: View key-down / key-up event not firing on IE 11

ThomasSolow — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:58:53 GMT

It might be worth trying to add a native event listener for keydown to the view container:

view.container.addEventListener("keydown", function(evt){...});

It's interesting that this may depend on OS version. My feeling is that this may have to do with whether the view is focused or not. Different OS/different browsers may have slightly different rules.