Force an enter event in an input with jQuery

I have an input which changes value when a click a button. What I want to do is to force an enter keyp开发者_如何学Goress event with jQuery. without pressing the button. Is this possible?

Thanks

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jQuerys .trigger() should do the trick:

$('input').trigger({
    type: 'keypress',
    which: 13
});

Ref.: .trigger()

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$(element).keydown(function(event) { if (event.keyCode == '13') { event.preventDefault(); } do_something(); });

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I needed to use this on a search box to clear it's content...but instead of using 'keypress' or 'keydown', I needed to use 'keyup' so that the search function would fire also. This way I could clear the limiting search results.