activate key through javascript

Hi there,

How can i activate, for example, the insertkey, without pressing the key
itself?
Something like: "window.event.keyCode = 45" won't work.

Any ideas?

It should happen onfocus, and "unhappen" "onunfocus"

(I have an inputfield, value is today's date, but when onfocus it should
type over the first characters so that the year wont have to by retyped.
(After adjusting day and month people can leave the field and go to the next
field.)

Thanks,
Simon

On Feb 28, 3:09 am, "Simon" <simon1... (AT) quicknet (DOT) nl> wrote:

Hi there,

How can i activate, for example, the insertkey, without pressing the key
itself?
Something like: "window.event.keyCode = 45" won't work.

Any ideas?

It should happen onfocus, and "unhappen" "onunfocus"

(I have an inputfield, value is today's date, but when onfocus it should
type over the first characters so that the year wont have to by retyped.
(After adjusting day and month people can leave the field and go to the next
field.)

Thanks,
Simon

Use this :
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<input onkeyup="ief()" onfocus="ief()">
....
....
<script>
function ief(){
txtRg=document.selection.createRange();
txtRg.collapse();
txtRg.moveEnd("character",1)
txtRg.select()
}
</script>