Enter key down does not open drop down in Mozilla

Question

Enter key does not open drop down in Mozilla. Works fine in Chrome.(Its chrome default behavior)

Trying something like this to achieve it in Mozilla

var self = this;
    $('select').on('keyup', function (e) {
        if (e.keyCode == 13) { $(this).trigger('click'); }
    });

try `e.which` instead of `e.keyCode` but I feel it works fine **[here](http://jsfiddle.net/Guruprasad_Rao/6w32teek/2/)** — Guruprasad J Rao, Aug 10 '15 at 06:12

ThreeSidedCoin · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-10T06:57:16.450

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According to this page, the shortcut for Mozilla is Alt+Down Arrow, for select boxes, arrow keys to scroll, Enter to select.

edited Aug 10 '15 at 06:57

answered Aug 10 '15 at 06:47

ThreeSidedCoin

thanks. can we manually trigger a event for alt + drown arrow? – Rohit Kumar Aug 10 '15 at 07:53
1

See [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/832059/definitive-way-to-trigger-keypress-events-with-jquery), [this](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/altKey) and [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10671822/jquery-handling-key-combinations) – ThreeSidedCoin Aug 10 '15 at 08:02
Enter key does not open drop down in Internet Explorer as well. Above solution works for IE as well. The shortcut of Alt+Down Arrow, for select boxes opens dropdown in IE. – Abhijeet Giram Aug 06 '20 at 08:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 06:22

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Are you trying in select box? If yes then trigger is not possible.

You can try on some other elements(div,ul li,..) similar to select box.

answered Aug 10 '15 at 06:22

ManiMuthuPandi

Is this still valid anno 2018? I'm trying to let a – DutchKevv Apr 17 '18 at 14:51

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