How to trigger keypress with click?

Asked Mar 28 '14 at 23:05

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I know that there are a lot of other threads with this question, but I think I'm doing something gravely wrong because nothing seems to work.

I'm new at jQuery, so I'm still learning. Basically, my question is:

I want to make it so that when I click on an element on my website, it is essentially pressing the down arrow on the keyboard for the entire page.

So let's say I have a DOM object, a div with id "downarrow".

This is the jQuery code I have to make it happen, but it just doesn't work.

$("#downarrow").click(function(){
    var e = jQuery.Event("keypress");
    e.which = 40;
    e.keyCode = 40;
    $(document).trigger(e);
});

Any thoughts or suggestions why? Thanks in advance!

asked Mar 28 '14 at 23:05

user3195580

what do you expect triggering a keypress on the document to do? – DrLivingston Mar 28 '14 at 23:08
possible duplicate of [Definitive way to trigger keypress events with jQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/832059/definitive-way-to-trigger-keypress-events-with-jquery) – DrLivingston Mar 28 '14 at 23:08
Just to scroll the page down. – user3195580 Mar 28 '14 at 23:09
You probably don't want to trigger this even on the document which is presumably the whole DOM, you need the piece that needs scrolling. – DrLivingston Mar 28 '14 at 23:12
possible duplicate of [How to Scroll Down - JQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12650170/how-to-scroll-down-jquery) – benomatis Mar 28 '14 at 23:30

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