The $.fn.sendkeys Plugin
This is now obsolete. sendkeys is at version 4, and is documented at "Rethinking $.fn.sendkeys".
I wanted to make a general-purpose onscreen keypad, and wasted a huge amount of time trying to find a way to
simulate a keypress.
$(element).trigger("keypress",...) won't work. Neither will keyup or keydown.
For security reasons, I guess, you can't tell an element to pretend a key was pressed. The browser is too
worried that you will access menus or something.
So I wrote my own plugin and named it after Microsoft's sendkeys
which does similar things. For any editable element elem,
$(elem).sendkeys(string) inserts string at the insertion point or selection.
It's the insertion point sensitivity
that makes it more sophisticated than elem.value += string.
It depends on my bililiteRange routines to manage the selections in a cross-browser way.
Downloads
See $.fn.sendkeys on github.
See bililiteRange on github.
See the demo.
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