Keyboard provides an api for managing a virtual keyboard. The high level api is Keyboard.type(), which takes raw characters and generates proper keydown, keypress/input, and keyup events on your page.
Signature:
export declare class Keyboard For finer control, you can use Keyboard.down(), Keyboard.up(), and Keyboard.sendCharacter() to manually fire events as if they were generated from a real keyboard.
On MacOS, keyboard shortcuts like ⌘ A -> Select All do not work. See #1313.
The constructor for this class is marked as internal. Third-party code should not call the constructor directly or create subclasses that extend the Keyboard class.
An example of holding down Shift in order to select and delete some text:
await page.keyboard.type('Hello World!');
await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft');
await page.keyboard.down('Shift');
for (let i = 0; i < ' World'.length; i++)
await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft');
await page.keyboard.up('Shift');
await page.keyboard.press('Backspace');
// Result text will end up saying 'Hello!'An example of pressing A
await page.keyboard.down('Shift');
await page.keyboard.press('KeyA');
await page.keyboard.up('Shift');| Method | Modifiers | Description |
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| down(key, options) | Dispatches a keydown event. |
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| press(key, options) | Shortcut for Keyboard.down() and Keyboard.up(). | |
| sendCharacter(char) | Dispatches a keypress and input event. This does not send a keydown or keyup event. |
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| type(text, options) | Sends a keydown, keypress/input, and keyup event for each character in the text. |
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| up(key) | Dispatches a keyup event. |