How to simulate keypress in iframe?

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by dedrick , in category: Javascript , 3 months ago

How to simulate keypress in iframe?

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by giovanny.lueilwitz , 3 months ago

@dedrick 

To simulate a keypress in an iframe, you can use JavaScript to create a new KeyboardEvent and dispatch it to the desired element within the iframe. Here is an example code snippet that demonstrates how to simulate a keypress in an iframe:

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// Get the iframe element
var iframe = document.getElementById('myIframe');

// Get the window object of the iframe
var iframeWindow = iframe.contentWindow;

// Get the element within the iframe on which you want to simulate the keypress
var targetElement = iframeWindow.document.getElementById('inputElement');

// Create a new KeyboardEvent with the desired key and options
var keyEvent = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {
  key: 'a',
  code: 'KeyA',
  keyCode: 65,
  bubbles: true
});

// Dispatch the KeyboardEvent to the target element
targetElement.dispatchEvent(keyEvent);


In this code snippet, replace 'myIframe' with the id of your iframe element and 'inputElement' with the id of the element within the iframe on which you want to simulate the keypress. You can customize the key event by modifying the properties of the KeyboardEvent object.