I want to manually invoke enter key press event on textbox through JS or jQuery.

I don't want to capture that event. I just want to invoke enter key press event.

I want to manually invoke enter key press event on textbox through JS or jQuery.

I don't want to capture that event. I just want to invoke enter key press event.

• javascript
• jquery
• jquery-events

• 3 Do you want to submit a form? – David Hedlund Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 18:54
• What do you want to achieve? Should that event trigger the existing key handler bound to the textbox? – Šime Vidas Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 18:56

3 Answers 3

You can trigger it like:

// dummy event listener
$("input").keydown(function() { return true; });

var keyEvent = jQuery.Event("keydown");
keyEvent.keyCode = 13;
$("input").trigger(keyEvent);

See this post too: Definitive way to trigger keypress events with jQuery

Trigger the event with jQuery:

$(document).trigger('keypress');

You are looking for synthetic events. It's quite plicated. The following library takes care of it for you... http://jupiterjs./news/syn-a-standalone-synthetic-event-library

Here's example code using their lib

Syn.click( {},'hello' )
   .type( 'Hello World' )
   .delay()         //waits 600ms seconds by default
   .drag( $('#trash') , function() {
     ok( $('#hello').length == 0, "removed hello" )
   });