Library for manipulating text ranges and selections, and assorted other programs that use that
jquery.sendkeys.js
Simple wrapper for bililiteRange.prototype.sendkeys
. Just:
$.fn.sendkeys = function (x){
return this.each( function(){
bililiteRange(this).bounds('selection').sendkeys(x).select();
this.focus();
});
};
Keydown events are “untrusted”, in the sense that only browser-generated events will insert text. Doing
$( element ).trigger ( jQuery.Event( "keydown", { key: 'a' } ) )
will trigger script-defined handlers
but not the default action of inserting an ‘a’.
jquery.sendkeys.js
adds a special default action handler to keydown
specifically to use sendkeys
to overcome that. Now $( element ).trigger ( jQuery.Event( "keydown", { key: 'a' } ) )
does
$( element ).sendkeys(key)
for a single-character key
, and
$( element ).sendkeys('{'+key+'}')
if key
is longer than one character, since that represents
a special key.