Trigger Keypress with jQuery

Question

On the Definitive Trigger Keypress jQuery thread there is no working JSFiddle for the answer, and the code that is there doesn't work for me.

$("button").click(function () {
    $("input").focus();
    var e = jQuery.Event("keydown");
    e.which = 77; // # Some key code value
    $("input").trigger(e);
})

There's my code and here's my fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Z8adb/

On click, an M should appear in the input, as the input is given focus and having a keydown with the keyCode of 77 ("m") triggered on it.

Any ideas?

EDIT: My true purpose for this is to trigger an "m" hotkey on a Sublime Video in order to mute the video programmatically. This was my first step to ensure I was firing the "m" key properly, which I am with the help of Stack Overflow. However, I'm still not able to get an event to fire programmatically on the video. I think this is just a problem with Sublime Video, but I'm not sure, and anyone's views on forcing keypresses and clicks would be awesome to hear.

Answer 1

Using trigger you are just triggering the event with a keycode but not assigning the value to the textbox. Try this :- http://jsfiddle.net/PbHD2/

String.fromCharCode

$("button").click(function() {
     $("input").focus();
    var e = jQuery.Event("keydown");
    e.which = 77; // # Some key code value
    $("input").val(String.fromCharCode(e.which));
    $("input").trigger(e);
});
$('input').keydown(function(e){
   console.log('Yes keydown triggered. ' + e.which)
});