InputEvent

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2020⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

TheInputEvent interface represents an event notifying the user of editable content changes.

Constructor

This interface inherits properties from its parents,UIEvent andEvent.

InputEvent.dataRead only: Returns a string with the inserted characters. This may be an empty string if the change doesn't insert text (for example, when deleting characters).
InputEvent.dataTransferRead only: Returns aDataTransfer object containing information about richtext or plaintext data being added to or removed from editable content.
InputEvent.inputTypeRead only: Returns the type of change for editable content such as, for example, inserting, deleting, or formatting text.
InputEvent.isComposingRead only: Returns aBoolean value indicating if the event is fired aftercompositionstart and beforecompositionend.

This interface inherits methods from its parents,UIEvent andEvent.

InputEvent.getTargetRanges(): Returns an array ofStaticRange objects that will be affected by a change to the DOM if the input event is not canceled.