Override the keyboard shortcuts in EJ2 JavaScript Document editor control

10 May 20238 minutes to read

Document Editor triggers the keyDown event every time when any key is entered and provides an instance of DocumentEditorKeyDownEventArgs. You can use the isHandled property to override the keyboard shortcut behavior.

Preventing default keyboard shortcut

The following code shows how to prevent the CTRL + C keyboard shortcut for copying selected content in Document Editor.

index.ts
index.html
import { DocumentEditor, Selection, Editor, DocumentEditorKeyDownEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-documenteditor';

//Inject require modules.
DocumentEditor.Inject(Selection, Editor)

//Initialize Document Editor.
let documentEditor: DocumentEditor = new DocumentEditor({ enableEditor: true, isReadOnly: false, height: '370px' });

documentEditor.appendTo('#DocumentEditor');

//Prevent keyboard shortcut inside `keyDown` event.
documentEditor.keyDown = function (args: DocumentEditorKeyDownEventArgs) {
    let keyCode: number = args.event.which || args.event.keyCode;
    let isCtrlKey: boolean = (args.event.ctrlKey || args.event.metaKey) ? true : ((keyCode === 17) ? true : false);
    //67 is the character code for 'C'
    if (isCtrlKey && keyCode === 67) {
        //To prevent copy operation set isHandled to true
        args.isHandled = true;
    }
}
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-documenteditor/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-buttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-base/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-dropdowns/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-inputs/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-lists/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-navigations/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-popups/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet"> 
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">   
        
        <div id="DocumentEditor">
            
        </div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Override or define the keyboard shortcut

Override or define a new keyboard shortcut behavior instead of preventing the keyboard shortcut.

For example, Ctrl + S keyboard shortcut saves the document in SFDT format by default, and there is no behavior for Ctrl + Alt + S. The following code demonstrates how to override the Ctrl + S shortcut to save a document in DOCX format and define Ctrl + Alt + S to save the document in SFDT format.

index.ts
index.html
import { DocumentEditor, Selection, Editor, DocumentEditorKeyDownEventArgs, SfdtExport, WordExport } from '@syncfusion/ej2-documenteditor';

//Inject require modules.
DocumentEditor.Inject(Selection, Editor, SfdtExport, WordExport);

//Initialize Document Editor.
let documentEditor: DocumentEditor = new DocumentEditor({ height: '370px', enableEditor: true, enableSfdtExport: true, enableWordExport: true, isReadOnly: false });

documentEditor.appendTo('#DocumentEditor');

//Override keyboard shortcut inside `keyDown` event.
documentEditor.keyDown = function (args: DocumentEditorKeyDownEventArgs) {
    let keyCode: number = args.event.which || args.event.keyCode;

    let isCtrlKey: boolean = (args.event.ctrlKey || args.event.metaKey) ? true : ((keyCode === 17) ? true : false);

    let isAltKey: boolean = args.event.altKey ? args.event.altKey : ((keyCode === 18) ? true : false);

    //83 is the character code for 'S'
    if (isCtrlKey && !isAltKey && keyCode === 83) {
        //To prevent default save operation, set the isHandled property to true
        args.isHandled = true;
        documentEditor.save('sample', 'Docx');
        args.event.preventDefault();
    } else if (isCtrlKey && isAltKey && keyCode === 83) {
        documentEditor.save('sample', 'Sfdt');
    }
}
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-documenteditor/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-buttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-base/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-dropdowns/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-inputs/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-lists/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-navigations/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-popups/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet"> 
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/27.2.2/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">   
        
        <div id="DocumentEditor">
            
        </div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>