Name

ctrlKey — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Whether the Control key was pressed at the instant the event fired. See Chapter 6 for testing for this key in cross-browser event handling code.

Example

if (event.ctrlKey) {
    process for Control key being down
}

Value

Boolean value: true | false.

Default

false

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