Getting text input from a user

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Hello all.
I want to implement player chat into my game. As such, I need some way to receive text input from the user.

Now, the text they enter will be displayed by writing it to an overlaying SVG, but I see a few methods to get what the player is writing:

  1. Overlay an HTML element that steals focus.
  2. Parse keystrokes inside playcanvas
  3. Something else

Have people done this previously. If so, how? What is the recomended method?
Cheers.

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  1. You can use <input> tag on HTML.
  2. You can use keydown event and get char-code of key as keydownevent.event.keyCode
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this project has something like that
https://playcanvas.com/project/346366/overview/dungeon-mmorpg