Capturing Delete Keypress with jQuery

Question

When using the example code from the jQuery documentation for the keypress event handler  I m unable to capture the Delete key  The snippet below is going to log 0 when the Delete key is pressed in FireFox      document  keypress function e        console log e which                Seems there s gotta be a way to capture the Delete key  but it s an ambiguous term so Google isn t proving to be much help with it

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event key      quot Delete quot  More recent and much cleaner  use event key  No more arbitrary number codes   NOTE  The old properties   keyCode and  which  are Deprecated   document addEventListener  keydown   function event        const key   event key     const  key    event  ES6      if  key      quot Delete quot                Do things            Mozilla Docs Supported Browsers

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html   keyup function e       if e keyCode    46            alert  Delete key released                Source  javascript char codes key codes from www cambiaresearch com

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Javascript Keycodes   e keyCode    8 for backspace e keyCode    46 for forward backspace or delete button in PC s   Except this detail Colin  amp  Tod s answer is working

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You shouldn t use the keypress event  but the keyup or keydown event because the keypress event is intended for real  printable  characters  keydown is handled at a lower level so it will capture all nonprinting keys like delete and enter

[jquery] Capturing "Delete" Keypress with jQuery

event.key === "Delete"

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