Definitive way to trigger keypress events with jQuery

Question

I\'ve read all the answers on to this questions and none of the solutions seem to work.

Also, I am getting the vibe that triggering keypress with special characters

Answer 1

The real answer has to include keyCode:

var e = jQuery.Event("keydown");
e.which = 50; // # Some key code value
e.keyCode = 50
$("input").trigger(e);

Even though jQuery's website says that which and keyCode are normalized they are very badly mistaken. It's always safest to do the standard cross-browser checks for e.which and e.keyCode and in this case just define both.