Programmatically press "Left" key in a text input
- by Anurag
I am trying to programmatically fire a key event to go left in a text box, but not having any luck.
The input element has focus and the cursor is at the end. I'm trying to get the cursor to move left one step - before the letter "F".
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Here's the code so far:
HTML
<input id="a" type="text" />
Javascript
var keyEvent = document.createEvent("KeyboardEvent");
var keyLocation = '0x00';
var keyIdentifier = "Left";
keyEvent.initKeyboardEvent("keypress",
true,
true,
window,
keyIdentifier,
keyLocation,
false);
$("a").dispatchEvent(keyEvent);
Saved a quick demo on jsfiddle if you want to see the whole code - http://jsfiddle.net/Vsafv/
I am not interested in making this cross-browser (just get it working in Chrome). Thanks for any help.
