typingStart

Fires when the user starts typing in the Chat message box. The event is fired only once and not upon each keystroke.

Event Data

e.sender kendo.ui.Chat

The widget instance which fired the event.

Example - subscribing to the typingStart event during initialization

<div id="chat"></div>
<script>
$("#chat").kendoChat({
    typingStart: function(e) {
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
        console.log("Started typing");
    }
});
</script>

Example - subscribing to the typingStart event after initialization

<div id="chat"></div>
<script>
function chat_typingStart(e) {
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
    console.log("Started typing");
}
$("#chat").kendoChat();

var chat = $("#chat").data("kendoChat");
chat.bind("typingStart", chat_typingStart);
</script>