I\'m writing some unit test in my web apps and I want to automatically trigger an Enter key pressed event from my page after for example a download to text file b
Create a variable that tells us if the user has clicked your button.
var clicked = false;
Add an event listener to your button, so that when the user clicks on it, the clicked
variable will become true
.
myButton.addEventListener('click', function(){
clicked = true;
});
Add a keypress
event listener:
document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e) {
// `e` is the event
});
Inside that event listener, check if the user clicked previously
if(clicked) {
// ...
}
If (s)he did, check the pressed key. Enter's key code is 13.
var keynum = e.keyCode||e.which;
if(keynum == 13) {
// ...
}
If the pressed key was enter, use
clicked = false;
Otherwise, once the user clicked your button and pressed enter, it wouldn't be necessary to click the button again.
After that run your code. For example, this will call function f
after 2 seconds.
setTimeout(f, 2000);
Live demo
var clicked = false;
document.querySelector('#btn').addEventListener('click', function(){
clicked = true;
snippet.log("You clicked the button. `clicked` is now `true`");
});
document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e) {
if(clicked) {
var keynum = e.keyCode || e.which;
if(keynum == 13) {
clicked = false;
snippet.log("`clicked` is now `false`. Waiting 2 seconds...");
setTimeout(f, 2000);
}
}
});
function f() {
snippet.log("Function `f` executed successfully!");
}
#btn {
border: 3px solid red;
cursor: pointer;
}
<div id="btn">Click me, and then press enter.</div>
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If I get your question right, this is what you are looking for
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).keydown(function(event){
if(event.keyCode == 13){
alert("keypressed");
}
});
function clickevent()
{
var e = $.Event("keydown");
e.which = 13;
e.keyCode = 13;
$(document).trigger(e);
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="thebody">
<input type="button" onclick="clickevent()" value="click me first">
</body>
</html>
If you're talking about automatically entering an Enter key to trigger a submit
event, you can use this instead:
$("#formID").submit();
$("#buttonID").click(function() {
$("#formID").submit(); // submits form
});
$("#txtfield").keyup(function(e) {
if(e.keyCode == 13) {
$("#submit").submit();
}
});