--- sidebar_label: Keyboard --- # Keyboard class Keyboard provides an api for managing a virtual keyboard. The high level api is [Keyboard.type()](./puppeteer.keyboard.type.md), which takes raw characters and generates proper keydown, keypress/input, and keyup events on your page. #### Signature: ```typescript export declare abstract class Keyboard ``` ## Remarks For finer control, you can use [Keyboard.down()](./puppeteer.keyboard.down.md), [Keyboard.up()](./puppeteer.keyboard.up.md), and [Keyboard.sendCharacter()](./puppeteer.keyboard.sendcharacter.md) to manually fire events as if they were generated from a real keyboard. On macOS, keyboard shortcuts like `⌘ A` -> Select All do not work. See [\#1313](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/1313). The constructor for this class is marked as internal. Third-party code should not call the constructor directly or create subclasses that extend the `Keyboard` class. ## Example 1 An example of holding down `Shift` in order to select and delete some text: ```ts await page.keyboard.type('Hello World!'); await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft'); await page.keyboard.down('Shift'); for (let i = 0; i < ' World'.length; i++) await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft'); await page.keyboard.up('Shift'); await page.keyboard.press('Backspace'); // Result text will end up saying 'Hello!' ``` ## Example 2 An example of pressing `A` ```ts await page.keyboard.down('Shift'); await page.keyboard.press('KeyA'); await page.keyboard.up('Shift'); ``` ## Methods <table><thead><tr><th> Method </th><th> Modifiers </th><th> Description </th></tr></thead> <tbody><tr><td> <span id="down">[down(key, options)](./puppeteer.keyboard.down.md)</span> </td><td> </td><td> Dispatches a `keydown` event. </td></tr> <tr><td> <span id="press">[press(key, options)](./puppeteer.keyboard.press.md)</span> </td><td> </td><td> Shortcut for [Keyboard.down()](./puppeteer.keyboard.down.md) and [Keyboard.up()](./puppeteer.keyboard.up.md). </td></tr> <tr><td> <span id="sendcharacter">[sendCharacter(char)](./puppeteer.keyboard.sendcharacter.md)</span> </td><td> </td><td> Dispatches a `keypress` and `input` event. This does not send a `keydown` or `keyup` event. </td></tr> <tr><td> <span id="type">[type(text, options)](./puppeteer.keyboard.type.md)</span> </td><td> </td><td> Sends a `keydown`, `keypress`/`input`, and `keyup` event for each character in the text. </td></tr> <tr><td> <span id="up">[up(key)](./puppeteer.keyboard.up.md)</span> </td><td> </td><td> Dispatches a `keyup` event. </td></tr> </tbody></table>