keydown - Simulate pressing tab key with jQuery

Question

I have some textboxes on a .net-page and want to achieve the following with jQuery: if the user presses return, the program should behave "as if" he had used the tab key, thus, selecting the next element. I tried the following code (and some more):

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(document).ready(function () {

    $('.tb').keypress(function (e) {
        if (e.keyCode == 13)
        {
            $(this).trigger("keydown", [9]);
            alert("return pressed");
        } 
    });
});

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" CssClass="tb"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" CssClass="tb"></asp:TextBox>

but it just does not work! Missing something, making a mistake?

Here some links I used

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and here

Answer 1

Try this:

http://jsbin.com/ofexat

$('.tg').bind('keypress', function(event) {
  if(event.which === 13) {
    $(this).next().focus();
  }
});

or the loop version: http://jsbin.com/ofexat/2