Simulate keypress

[Christian]

Hello,

As the subject says it, is there a way to simulate a special keypress in JS
? In my case, on loading an HTML page, i'd like to set the cursor at the end
of the input text of an <input type=text ...> object.
focus() sets the cusor at the beginning

Any idea ?

Christian.

[Raul Carrillo a.k.a. Metsuke]

Re: Simulate keypress

First of all sorry about my poor English, i´ll try to do the best.

Well, i´m having a similar problem because i wan´t to select certaint
characters from a text box. Maybe this routine i´ve just created , solves
your problem.

This routine, selects in a textbox characters from StartIndex to EndIndex.
If you gives to the routine both parameters with textbox content lenght, i
think it puts the cursor in the desired position.

function selectFromTo (textInput, charStartIndex, charEndIndex) {

/* We´ll calculate the appropiate value to the different moves. */
strTextInputVal ue = "" + textInput.value ;

charStartIndex = (parseInt(charS tartIndex) - 1);

numEndIndex = parseInt(charEn dIndex);
numEndIndex -= strTextInputVal ue.length;
charEndIndex = numEndIndex.toS tring();

if (textInput.crea teTextRange) {
var range = textInput.creat eTextRange();
range.moveStart ('character', charStartIndex );
range.moveEnd(' character', charEndIndex);
range.select();
}
}

Raul Carrillo a.k.a Metsuke


"Christian" <cgregoir99@yah oo.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> Hello,
>
> As the subject says it, is there a way to simulate a special keypress in[/color]
JS[color=blue]
> ? In my case, on loading an HTML page, i'd like to set the cursor at the[/color]
end[color=blue]
> of the input text of an <input type=text ...> object.
> focus() sets the cusor at the beginning
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Christian.
>
>[/color]

[Christian]

Re: Simulate keypress

"Raul Carrillo a.k.a. Metsuke <(^_^)>" <rcarrillo@cole ccionalo.com> wrote in
message news:9irqb.8800 70$uj6.2223837@ telenews.teleli ne.es...[color=blue]
> First of all sorry about my poor English, i´ll try to do the best.
>
> Well, i´m having a similar problem because i wan´t to select certaint
> characters from a text box. Maybe this routine i´ve just created , solves
> your problem.
>
> This routine, selects in a textbox characters from StartIndex to EndIndex.
> If you gives to the routine both parameters with textbox content lenght, i
> think it puts the cursor in the desired position.
>
> function selectFromTo (textInput, charStartIndex, charEndIndex) {
>
> /* We´ll calculate the appropiate value to the different moves. */
> strTextInputVal ue = "" + textInput.value ;
>
> charStartIndex = (parseInt(charS tartIndex) - 1);
>
> numEndIndex = parseInt(charEn dIndex);
> numEndIndex -= strTextInputVal ue.length;
> charEndIndex = numEndIndex.toS tring();
>
> if (textInput.crea teTextRange) {
> var range = textInput.creat eTextRange();
> range.moveStart ('character', charStartIndex );
> range.moveEnd(' character', charEndIndex);
> range.select();
> }
> }
>
> Raul Carrillo a.k.a Metsuke
>
>
> "Christian" <cgregoir99@yah oo.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:bod5kv$8m6 $1@reader1.imag inet.fr...[color=green]
> > Hello,
> >
> > As the subject says it, is there a way to simulate a special keypress in[/color]
> JS[color=green]
> > ? In my case, on loading an HTML page, i'd like to set the cursor at the[/color]
> end[color=green]
> > of the input text of an <input type=text ...> object.
> > focus() sets the cusor at the beginning
> >
> > Any idea ?
> >
> > Christian.
> >
> >[/color]
>[/color]

Thanks for the reply. I eventually found a similar answer on google, using
createTextRange . That will solve my problem, though i doubt this will work
on every browser.

For a more general matter, is there a way to simulate a keypress ?