Simulate pressing tab key with jQuery

Question

I have some textboxes on a .net-page and want to achieve the following with jQuery: if the user presses return, the program should behave \"as if\" he had used the tab key,

Answer 1

I created a simple jQuery plugin which does solve this problem. It uses the ':tabbable' selector of jQuery UI to find the next 'tabbable' element and selects it.

Example usage:

// Simulate tab key when enter is pressed           
$('.tb').bind('keypress', function(event){
    if(event.which === 13){
        if(event.shiftKey){
            $.tabPrev();
        }
        else{
            $.tabNext();
        }
        return false;
    }
});