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.

Learning resources on MDN

• Element: compositionstart event
• Element: compositionupdate event
• Element: compositionend event

Browser support

• Chrome 26 Released on 2013-03-26
• Chrome Android 26 Released on 2013-04-03
• Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
• Firefox 53 Released on 2017-04-19
• Firefox for Android 53 Released on 2017-04-19
• Safari 7 Released on 2013-10-22
• Safari on iOS 7 Released on 2013-09-18

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