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JavaScript React Basics Understanding State Bind Event Handlers to Components

Posted by Katriel Paige
Katriel Paige
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These exercises use onClick. But what if you wanted to make sure the counters are accessible using a keyboard?

I hesitate to always use onClick for functionality because many times, I don't use a mouse. So, is there some other way to code this that allows for keyboard access to the score counters etc?

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The "onchange" event Lukas mentioned will work for typing into input elements. But if you want to detect keyboard events on other elements or the document itself, you can use the "onkeydown" event.

See the MDN page on keydown for more details.

Lukas Dahlberg
Lukas Dahlberg
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Lukas Dahlberg
Lukas Dahlberg
53,736 Points

onChange, onFocus (or onFocusIn), and onBlur based on what you're trying to accomplish and when

Katriel Paige
Katriel Paige
9,260 Points

Thanks! I also realized that I see a lot of onmouseclick - which thankfully is not used as often anymore, but a lot of older code I've seen still assumes use of a mouse.

Mark Wood
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Mark Wood
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Mark Wood
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Mark Wood
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,100 Points

I know this is an old question but in case people read this in the future, the "enter" or spacebar keys register as a click on the focused item, so onClick still works. Maybe this wasn't the case in 2019? I'm not sure about that.