trigger-event

Programmatically trigger a DOM event. Useful for testing mostly.

Installation

$ component install ianstormtaylor/trigger-event

Example

var trigger = require('trigger-event');
trigger(button, 'click', { meta: true });
trigger(document, 'keydown', { key: 'enter' });

Shorthand for keys:

trigger('keydown', { key: 'enter' })

API

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

Types:

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

Element will default to document if none is provided.

Default options:

alt        : false,
bubbles    : true,
button     : 0,
cancelable : true,
clientX    : 0,
clientY    : 0,
ctrl       : false,
detail     : 1,
key        : 0, // can be a string like 'enter' for convenience
meta       : false,
screenX    : 0,
screenY    : 0,
shift      : false,
view       : window

License

MIT