Chrome: Simulate keypress events on input text field using javascript

Question

There is a lot of contents on this in stack overflow but none seems to work for my case. I have an input text field and I want to simulate keypress event to fill the text fi

Answer 1

You will not be able to fire an event that will cause text to populate an input. See this snippet from MDN:

Note: manually firing an event does not generate the default action associated with that event. For example, manually firing a key event does not cause that letter to appear in a focused text input. In the case of UI events, this is important for security reasons, as it prevents scripts from simulating user actions that interact with the browser itself.

Thanks @gforce301

Your best bet may be to set the value and then dispatch an event.