onKeyPress Vs. onKeyUp and onKeyDown

Question

What is the difference between these three events? Upon googling I found that:

• The onKeyDown event is triggered when the user pre

Answer 1

Just wanted to share a curiosity:

when using the onkeydown event to activate a JS method, the charcode for that event is NOT the same as the one you get with onkeypress!

For instance the numpad keys will return the same charcodes as the number keys above the letter keys when using onkeypress, but NOT when using onkeydown !

Took me quite a few seconds to figure out why my script which checked for certain charcodes failed when using onkeydown!

Demo: https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=FMMBXKZLP1MK

and yes. I do know the definition of the methods are different.. but the thing that is very confusing is that in both methods the result of the event is retrieved using event.keyCode.. but they do not return the same value.. not a very declarative implementation.