Composition events

The compositionstart, compositionupdate, and compositionend events fire when an input method editor adds characters that might not be commonly available on keyboards. Examples of these characters are emoji, logograms in Asian languages, or input from speech recognition processors.

Baseline Status: Achieved Widely Available on Oct 19, 2019 (Cross-browser Newly Available since Apr 19, 2017).

Desktop Browser Engine Support

Google Chrome

26

Supported

Mozilla Firefox

53

Supported

Apple Safari

7

Supported

Microsoft Edge

12

Supported

Mobile Browser Engine Support

Chrome Android

26

Firefox Android

53

Safari iOS

7

Specifications and References

Specification ↗ Feature XML ↗

MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:

api.CompositionEvent ↗ api.CompositionEvent.CompositionEvent ↗ api.CompositionEvent.data ↗ api.Element.compositionend_event ↗ api.Element.compositionstart_event ↗ api.Element.compositionupdate_event ↗