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

Updated Answer:

KeyDown

• Fires multiple times when you hold keys down.
• Fires meta key.

KeyPress

• Fires multiple times when you hold keys down.
• Does not fire meta keys.

KeyUp

• Fires once at the end when you release key.
• Fires meta key.

This is the behavior in both addEventListener and jQuery.

https://jsbin.com/vebaholamu/1/edit?js,console,output <-- try example

(answer has been edited with correct response, screenshot & example)