Javascript - How to create a keypress event?

Question

I\'ve looked on the internet for this and all I can find are depreciated functions so before posting please check to make sure that the code you suggest isn\'t depreciated.

Answer 1

Here's a vanilla JS solution to detect a CTRL + k keypress event:

UPDATED to also trigger the event.

document.addEventListener("keypress", function(e) {
  if ((e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey) && (e.keyCode == 11 || e.keyCode == 75)) {
    alert("ctrl+k!");
  }
});


document.getElementById("trigger").addEventListener("click", function(){
  //trigger a keypress event...
  var e = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents');
    e.initEvent("keypress", false, true);
    e.ctrlKey = true;
    e.keyCode = 75;
  document.dispatchEvent(e);
});

Press ctrl+k or
trigger the event