KeyboardEvent: isComposing property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The KeyboardEvent.isComposing read-only property returns a boolean value indicating if the event is fired within a composition session, i.e. after compositionstart and before compositionend.

Value

A boolean.

Examples

js
const kbdEvent = new KeyboardEvent("syntheticKey", false);
console.log(kbdEvent.isComposing); // return false

Specifications

Specification
UI Events
# dom-keyboardevent-iscomposing

Browser compatibility

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See also