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• narayan Administrators

  July 2009

  Hi Keats,
  _keyPress(element, 9) should have done it, but it does not as seen on firefox. Will have a look at this.
• keats Members

  March 2010

  Hi Narayan,
  
  Any idea about this yet?
  For the above issue i got through with a work around then.
  Now i was trying to get below things to work.
  _keyPress(element, 9); - Tab
  _keyPress(element, 115);-F4
  
  It doesn't seem to work. Can you help me with this?
• narayan Administrators

  March 2010

  Keats,
  
  If you wish to move focus from one element to another using tab, this method won't work. The reason is that the browser does not interpret the tab key the same way as it interprets other keys. So emulating a keypress will not work. If your intention is to just remove focus from an element, it will automatically happen when you click or setValue in some other element (from the January 2010 versions). You can also explicitly call _blur(element) or _removeFocus(element) if you want.
  
  The function keys may also not work the same way. The new _keyPress actually takes an array also as the second parameter.
  
  _keyPress(element, [keyCode, charCode]).
  
  You can go to http://sahi.co.in/demo/eventSequence.htm to find the keycodes and charcodes. (Click "Add event listeners", check keyCode and charCode, and press F4 in the textbox on the right. You will see the various events in the textarea below it.)
  
  You could try
  _keyPress(element, [115, 0]);
  
  Regards,
  Narayan
• sunny Members

  March 2013

  Hi Narayan,
  
  I tried with the above code, but it is not working.
  please suggest a way how to press tab key, actually i need to get focus on password field.
  
  Thanks,
  Sarathy CR
  
• dvasquez Members

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Hi!
  I've managed to simulate the tab key by typing something + "\t" inside a field (using the java driver).
  It doesn't work just with "\t" you need to type some text before.
  
  element.type(value + "\t");