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title: GlobalEventHandlers.onkeydown
slug: Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onkeydown
translation_of: Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onkeydown
---
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<p>La propiedad <code><strong>onkeydown</strong></code> devuelve un manejador para el evento <code>onKeyDown</code> del elemento actual.</p>

<h2 id="Sintaxis">Sintaxis</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox">element.onkeydown = <var>event handling code</var></pre>

<h2 id="Notas">Notas</h2>

<p>El evento <code>keydown</code> se lanza cuando el usuario presiona una tecla.</p>

<h2 id="Especificaciones">Especificaciones</h2>

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   <td>{{SpecName('HTML WHATWG','webappapis.html#handler-onkeydown','onkeydown')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td> </td>
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<h2 id="Compatibilidad_con_navegadores">Compatibilidad con navegadores</h2>

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