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  "title":"KeyboardEvent.key",
  "description":"A `KeyboardEvent` property whose value is a string identifying the key that was pressed. Covers character keys, non-character keys (e.g. arrow keys), and dead keys.",
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    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/key",
      "title":"MDN Web Docs - key"
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      "url":"https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227231",
      "title":"Chrome tracking bug"
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    {
      "url":"https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69029",
      "title":"WebKit feature request bug"
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      "url":"https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events-key/",
      "title":"Spec listing all key string values"
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      "url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20190401104951/https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/8860571/",
      "title":"Edge bug report"
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      "url":"https://github.com/shvaikalesh/shim-keyboard-event-key",
      "title":"shim-keyboard-event-key: shim for non-standard key identifiers for IE & Edge"
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  "notes":"[\"Some key events, or their values, might be suppressed by the IME in use\"](https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-uievents-20190530/#keys-IME). On mobile (virtual keyboard), for every key Blink and WebKit based browsers report \"Unidentified\", Gecko reports \"Process\".",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Partial support refers to these versions of Firefox returning `\"MozPrintableKey\"` for all character keys.",
    "2":"Has non-standard key identifiers and incorrect behaviour with AltGraph."
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  "keywords":"keyboard,event,key",
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