trigger-event

Programmatically trigger a DOM event.

Rewrite of ianstormtaylor/trigger-event for npm+browserify support.

Example

var triggerEvent = require('trigger-event');

triggerEvent(document, 'keydown', {key: 'enter'});
triggerEvent('keydown', {key: 'enter'})

Installation

$ npm install trigger-event

API

var triggerEvent = require('trigger-event');

triggerEvent([element, ]type[, options])

Programmatically triggers a DOM event of type:

• 'click'
• 'dblclick'
• 'keydown'
• 'keyup'

document is used if element is not provided.

Default options:

{
  alt: false,
  bubbles: true,
  button: 0,
  cancelable: true,
  clientX: 0,
  clientY: 0,
  ctrl: false,
  detail: 1,
  key: 0,
  meta: false,
  relatedTarget: null,
  screenX: 0,
  screenY: 0,
  shift: false,
  view: window
}