How Do You Trigger a Keyboard CTRL Command with an OnClick Event

[kennygadams]

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to trigger a keyboard command when using the OnClick event?

I'm trying to do a 'bookmark this page' script and get stuck when trying to bookmark a page in Safari.

When someone clicks on "Bookmark this Page" I want to trigger the Cmd-D keyboard command if the user is using the Safari Mac browser.

Thanks,
Kenny

 

[cLFlaVA]

no need to specifically force a Ctrl+D (Cmnd+D), just do a little searching for a javascript answer: google search results.



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[kennygadams]

I looked through the first ten results from the Google search query you suggested and got the same stuff I already looked through. What I'm getting is that for these browsers, Safari and Opera, you cant use javascript code to bookmark and you have do a pop-up that says something like "hit Cmnd+D to bookmark this site."

Kenny

 

[feherke]

Hi

you have do a pop-up that says something like "hit Cmnd+D to bookmark this site."

Why do you have to write that in a pop-up and not in the page itself ?

I think those "bookmark this page" links are useless. If the user knows what bookmarks are, he can bookmark it without link. If the visitor does not know how to create a bookmark, he probably not know neither where to find them later. So I think a link alone is for not use.

Currently I have 530 pages bookmarked, but none was created by clicking such link.

Feherke.

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[kennygadams]

Well I wouldn't have to do the pop-up but I would want to do something to let the Mac user know that in order to bookmark the page click Cmnd+D... if the user clicked on the "bookmark this page" link

I have about 50 bookmarks and some were added by "bookmark this page" links. I think some users will use the bookmark link and others will simply ignore it.

Kenny

 

[kennygadams]

Can this be done, Trigger a Keyboard CTRL Command with the javascript onClick Event, or should I move on?

Thanks,

kennygadams
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[adam0101]

I don't think this can be done. Imagine the security problems if a website could send keystrokes to a client! If Safari does not expose a method in it's implementation of JavaScript, then you'll just have to instruct the user on what they need to do to bookmark your page.

Adam

http://adameslinger.blogspot.com/

 

[kennygadams]

Thanks Adam.

kennygadams

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