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Dennis Dittert
Dennis Dittert

Reputation: 67

How to fire keypress event from parent into iframe?

I want to develop a website to test an other websites script.

In the website (iFrame) that I want to test i have the following event listener:

$(document).ready(function(e){

    $(document).keypress(HandleKeyPress);

});

Now I want to trigger a keypress event from my testpage (parent) to test the event listener.

I tried this:

var _window = $("#test-container")[0].contentWindow;

...
...

var evt = $.Event("keypress");
evt.charCode = char.charCodeAt(0);

$(_window.document).trigger(evt);

But nothing happens?!?!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 824

Answers (1)

CuriousBenjamin
CuriousBenjamin

Reputation: 719

This is how you target a parent document 

var parentDoc = window.parent.document

Once you have access to the parent document object, you may try whatever you want. and the jquery instance could be found as below

var parentDoc = window.parent.$

Let me know if this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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