Selenium-IDE: How to simulate non-printable keys (ENTER, ESC, Backspace)?

Question

What is the exact HTML code to simulate ENTER, ESC, BACKSPACE and DOWN in Selenium IDE 1.3.0?

typeKeys didn't work nor did this:

<tr>
    <td>keyDown</td>
    <td>id=zc_0_4_3-real</td>
    <td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>keyUp</td>
    <td>id=zc_0_4_3-real</td>
    <td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>keyPress</td>
    <td>id=zc_0_4_3-real</td>
    <td>10</td>
</tr>

Answer 1

None of the solutions above helped me, however, the special keys described here this did the trick:

http://blog.reallysimplethoughts.com/2013/09/25/using-special-keys-in-selenium-ide-part-1/

sendKeys | id=search | ${KEY_ENTER}

Special keys - like normal keys, only a bit special. :)

Answer 2

For example to submit a form by pressing enter, the only one I can figure out is:

Command: keyPressAndWait
Target:  id=q              [depends on your form of course]
Value:   \\13              [for enter - any ascii value can go here]

So it looks like this:

<tr>
<td>keyPressAndWait</td>
<td>id=q</td>
<td>\13</td>
</tr>

Hope it helps Paul

Update:

keyPressAndWait is deprecated

Now you can use:

Command: sendKeys,

Target: id=<your id>,

Value: <your letter in utf8 and not ascii anymore>

For non-printable keys you can have a look at this page: http://www.testingdiaries.com/selenium-ide-keypress-events/