I am trying to "feature detect" IE's behavior when pressing enter in an input box that has a button element next to it (when they are not in a form element).
I'm saying IE's behavior because no one else fires a click event on the next button when pressing the enter-key while the input is focused.
Related question where the first awnser describes why IE behaves like this: IE bug triggers click for 2 buttons?
JS-Fiddle where I try to simulate the key press via jQuery.Event and .trigger: http://jsfiddle.net/DbVrn/
Behavior of said js-fiddle in IE:
- When opening the page, the input gets focus, and then we try to simulate pressing of the enter-key.
- The simulated enter-key does nothing, hence the input remains focused and red.
- If you manually press enter while the input is focused, the button will become focused and green.
The problem i have with my current attempt to detect this feature is that:
$("input").trigger(jQuery.Event("keypress", { which: 13 }));
does not actually do the same as manually pressing the enter-key while the input is focused.
How can I successfully simulate the enter-key so that my test for this behavior is possible? Or is there another way i can test for this behavior?
Edit: Updated title to more clearly state that this needs to be tested via javascript, and that the test needs to work in IE from version 8 to 10. Unless anyone else can provide a way of testing this, I will conclude that I need to use user-agent sniffing to see if browser is IE and choose code-path based off that.