event.key is undefined in mobile browsers for keyup, keydown and keypress

Question

The following code is supposed to simply suppress any key press and add the pressed key to a div instead. This works fine on desktop, however on mobile (safari and chrome) <

Answer 1

Since there is no character representation for control characters like up, down, left or right, you need to hardcode the character implementation in the code itself. I used Window.event.KeyCode event from document.onkeydown event listener and it works. Here is my solution:

window.onload = function() {
  try {
    var el = document.getElementById("#test");
    var str = '';
    document.onkeydown = function() {
      var currentKey = window.event.keyCode;
      switch (currentKey) {
        case 40:
          str = "down";
          break;
        case 37:
          str = "left";
          break;
        case 39:
          str = "right";
          break;
        case 38:
          str = "up";
          break;
      }
      event.preventDefault;
      e1.innerHTML = str;

    };

  } catch (e) {
    alert(e.message);
  }
}

Answer 2

The only workaround is to get the keycode and cast it to String:

var str = '';
var el = document.getElementById('#test');
document.addEventListener('keypress', function(event) {
  const currentCode = event.which || event.code;
  let currentKey = event.key;
  if (!currentKey) {
    currentKey = String.fromCharCode(currentCode);
  }
  str += currentKey;
  event.preventDefault();
  el.innerHTML = str;
})