'How to detect control keypress/keydown inside textarea?

Is it possible to detect e.ctrlKey inside a text input field? As soon as the cursor is inside a text field, I only get keyup events:

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The text field is a textarea:

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The event listener is set correctly because I detect keypress events for normal letter keys, as well as keydown events when the textarea is not focused.

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