KeyDownTriggerBehavior.md

title	author	description	keywords	dev_langs
Key Down Trigger Behavior	XAML-Knight	Add a new behavior that listens to a key press event on the associated UIElement and triggers the set of actions.	windows 10, uwp, windows community toolkit, uwp community toolkit, uwp toolkit, textbox, behaviors, interactivity, KeyDownTrigger, key down trigger	csharp

Key Down Trigger Behavior

Add a new behavior that listens to a key press event on the associated UIElement and triggers the set of actions.

Platform APIs: Behaviors

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Try it in the sample app

Example

In this example setting up the KeyDownTriggerBehavior to start the animation:

  <TextBox
    PlaceholderText="Set the focus to this TextBox and press enter to trigger the animation"
    Width="500">
        <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
            <behaviors:KeyDownTriggerBehavior
                Key="Enter">
                <behaviors:StartAnimationAction Animation="{Binding ElementName=MoveAnimation}" />
            </behaviors:KeyDownTriggerBehavior>
        </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
    </TextBox>

Sample Project

Key Down Trigger behavior sample page Source. You can see this in action in Windows Community Toolkit Sample App.

Source Code

• Key Down Trigger behavior source code

Related Topics

• XAML Behaviors