javascript - How to trigger the enter keypress

Question

I need to know how to trigger an enter key on an input. That is, in response to some other event (not a keypress), I need to trigger a keypress of value 13.

(Clarification, I do not want to trigger some event when the enter key is pressed. If I didn't know how to do that, I could find that that's been asked and answered several times on SO. I want the reverse. I am trying to develop a workaround that requires I emulate an 'enter' keypress.)

Answer 1

You can do this -

var e = $.Event( "keypress", { which: 13 } );
$('#yourInput').trigger(e);

• http://api.jquery.com/category/events/event-object/
• http://api.jquery.com/trigger/