Create KeyEvent in Javascript

Question

I have the following problem - I'm catching a key event an I need to create a new altered key event(since it seems the keyCode property is read-only) and afterwards handle the newly created KeyEvent. I came across several old posts in StackOverflow where similar situations are handled, but:

• I need this to be working under Webkit /there's a solution here in StackOverfow but it is working only in Gecko/

• I need to create another KeyEvent, but not TextInputEvent, since the TextInputEvent will only let my specify a string to be inserted, whilst I cannot do that as I use a third party tool that needs to handle this event and I need a keycode.

• I tried jQuery#trigger() but it won't work for me. My code is as follows

  var event = jQuery.event('keydown');
  event.which = 13; //I'm trying to simulate an enter
  $('iframe').contents().find('document').find('body').trigger(event); //my content is inside an iframe
  

Answer 1

(function($){
    $(window).load(function(){

        var e = $.Event("keydown");
        e.which = 13;
        e.keyCode = 13;
        $('iframe').contents().find('html, body').trigger(e);

    });
})(jQuery);