Navigator: keyboard property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The keyboard read-only property of the Navigator interface returns a Keyboard object which provides access to functions that retrieve keyboard layout maps and toggle capturing of key presses from the physical keyboard.

Value

A Keyboard object.

Specifications

Specification
Keyboard Lock
# h-navigator-keyboard

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Node.js
keyboard
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 68 (Release date: 2018-07-24)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 55 (Release date: 2018-08-16)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 68 (Release date: 2018-07-24)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 48 (Release date: 2018-11-08)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 10 (Release date: 2019-08-22)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 68 (Release date: 2018-07-24)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Node.js – No support
Node.js
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.