jQuery Trigger Event in AngularJS Karma Test

Question

I\'m trying to test a new directive I\'m writing. However, I can\'t seem to get the keydown event to trigger with jQuery inside Karma/Jasmine.

Here is a simplified

Answer 1

I hope this works

  var e = $.Event('keydown');
  e.which = 65;

  $(inputEl).trigger(e); // convert inputEl into a jQuery object first
  // OR
  angular.element(inputEl).triggerHandler(e); // angular.element uses triggerHandler instead of trigger to trigger events