Detect Shift-Enter keypress in JavaScript

Here’s a question from one of our readers, Ms. Shikha. I read your article on KeyBoardEvent.keyCode is deprecated and the alternate property .key should be used. While using the .key property, how can I detect the Shift-Enter keypress in JavaScript?

How to Detect Shift-Enter Keypress in JavaScript?

In my previous article, I had mentioned that you can use the .key property to detect if Enter key was pressed by the user using the following code.

function isKeyPressed(event) {
     if(event.key === 'Enter'){
          //code
     }
}

Now to detect Shift-Enter, you can just place another ‘if’ condition as shown below.

function isKeyPressed(event) {
if (event.key === 'Enter')
{
      if(event.shiftKey)
      {
            console.log('shift enter was pressed');
      }
}
}

In the above code, shiftKey property is used to check if the user pressed ‘SHIFT’ or not. The shiftKey property returns a boolean value indicating whether or not the “SHIFT” key was pressed when a key event was triggered.

Similarly, you can use altKey, ctrlKey, metaKey properties to detect ALT, CTRL, META keys.

Here’s a guide to shiftKey property.