I was working on some jQuery today in a WordPress theme I’m working on, and I wanted to simulate a keyboard input so that I could force a jQuery plugin to work in the way I wanted it to without hacking its core. Here’s how you do it:
- First figure out the e.which code for what key you want to ‘fake’ being pushed using this tool.
- Then create the jQuery (in your document ready or wherever you are going to use it) to simulate the keydown event
//create event var e = jQuery.Event("keydown"); //set which key is being pressed e.which = 40 ; //trigger the event jQuery("#my-element-id").trigger(e);
Beautiful isn’t it 🙂
Update: this may not be relevant in 2018 anymore.
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