Is there a way to send key presses to Webkit using Capybara?
I've been trying to implement Marc's answer without any success, but I found some help from a similar question: capybara: fill in form field value with terminating enter key. And apparently there was a pull request from capybara that seems to address this issue.
What worked for me was:
before { fill_in "some_field_id", with: "\t" }My example erases the text in the field and then presses Tab. To fill in a field with 'foobar', replace "\t" with "foobar\t". You can also use "\n" for the Enter key.
For your example, you could use:
find("#element_id").set("\t")
This worked for me with Poltergeist, to trigger the asterisk key:
find("body").native.send_key("*")I had no luck with the other solutions; not even Syn.
This was to trigger an angular-hotkeys event.
You can do it like that:
keypress_script = "var e = $.Event('keydown', { keyCode: #{keycode} }); $('body').trigger(e);"page.driver.browser.execute_script(keypress_script)