How to send Keyboard keys in protractor like TAB

Question

I need to select an element, send values to it, press tab and then send new values.

I can select the element and send values to it but am not being able to send TAB from

Answer 1

i wrote a snippet and tested it against google.de (not .com! maybe you have to adjust this) and when sending TAB the next element gets the focus (in this case it's the search button).

the snippet:

describe('Test', function () {
  it('should browse to google', function () {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
    browser.driver.get('https://www.google.de');
    expect(browser.getCurrentUrl()).toEqual('https://www.google.de/');
  });
  it('should unfocus the search field', function () {
    var search = element(by.name('q'));
    search.sendKeys(protractor.Key.TAB);
    browser.sleep(3000); // 3s to take a look ;)
  });
});