Question

I want a link to be clicked when a key is pressed, I cooked up this jQuery:

   $('form#form1').bind("keypress", function(e){
        if(e.keycode == 13 || e.keyChar == 13 || e.which == 13){
        $('.LoginBoxButton a').click();
        }   
    });

It doesn’t work, and I’ve read the following explaining why:

It’s important to remember that
click() will not trigger the default
behavior on a link, even if nothing
else is preventing it. So you can’t
use click() by itself to simulate the
user clicking on a link and being
taken to another url.

But how DO you simulate the user clicking on a link and being taken to another url?

Answer 1

You may go about like this:

$('form#form1').bind("keypress", function(e){
    if(e.keycode == 13 || e.keyChar == 13 || e.which == 13){
      document.location.href = $('.LoginBoxButton a').attr('href');
    }   
});