Name

shiftKey — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Reveals the state of the Shift key at the time the event fired.

Example

if (event.shiftKey) {
    handle case of Shift key down
}

Value

Boolean value: true | false.

Default

false

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