Fire a mouseclick on a press of another button

Question

How can I trigger a mouseclick on a certain element on a page by pressing a other button on my keyboard ex "enter" or combination of other buttons?

Take a look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6157929/how-to-simulate-a-mouse-click-using-javascript — Adam H, Jul 18 '18 at 20:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 20:29

Try this code out:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Smlep5jCw/wG7hdkwQ/Z5nLIefveQRIY9nfy6xoR1uRYBtpZgI6339F5dgvm/e9B" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <title>Ilan's Test</title>
</head>

<body>

    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-lg-12" id="results">

            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.2/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-o+RDsa0aLu++PJvFqy8fFScvbHFLtbvScb8AjopnFD+iEQ7wo/CG0xlczd+2O/em" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    <script>
        // We begin listening to keypresses on the document body
        $(document).keypress(function(e) {
            // If the key pressed was Enter (keycode 13)
            if (e.keyCode == 13) {
                // Perform an action -- You can now envoke a click event on an element's ID for example, here I just console log and append text to my results div
                $('#results').append('<div>You hit enter!</div><hr>');
                // Console log
                console.log('you pressed enter');
                return false;
            }
        });
    </script>
</body>

</html>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '18 at 00:21

I figured it out with vanilla JS

window.onkeyup = function(e) {
    var key = e.keyCode   
    if (key == 13) {
      document.getElementById('test').click()
    }
}

This will watch for when someone presses a button then check if they pressed enter, if they did then it will preform a click on the the element with Id 'test'

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 20:28

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simulate(document.getElementById("btn"), "click");

answered Jul 18 '18 at 20:28

Griehle

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simulate is not a vanilla JS function, what library is this from and how does it help answer the question? – Luca Kiebel Jul 18 '18 at 21:10
Ahh Vanilla. Got it. Was rushing through stuff at work. My bad. – Griehle Jul 20 '18 at 00:07

Fire a mouseclick on a press of another button

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