I have an input which changes value when a click a button. What I want to do is to force an enter keypress event with jQuery. without pressing the button. Is this possible?
Thanks
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jQuerys .trigger() should do the trick:
$('input').trigger({
type: 'keypress',
which: 13
});
Ref.: .trigger()
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Peadar
cheers jAndy, this helped me chain a button to hit enter on an input box
$(element).keydown(function(event) {
if (event.keyCode == '13') {
event.preventDefault();
}
do_something();
});
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novellino
I think it doesn't work as well. I don't want to capture the keypress and do something. I want to force an enter keypress with code.
D.Nibon
Ok. Is running $(element).keydown() on your element enought? You won't get the event id this way but a general keydown(). I don't think it's possible to set event id. May .submit() be close enough to simulate a event with id 13 maybe?
I needed to use this on a search box to clear it's content...but instead of using 'keypress' or 'keydown', I needed to use 'keyup' so that the search function would fire also. This way I could clear the limiting search results.
