Can someone provide a good example to simulate the backspace key on a <INPUT> text field? I need this for a virtual keyboard done in HTML5 and it only needs to work in Webkit browsers. Notes: createEvent / initTextEvent / dispatchEvent with charcode 8 (backspace) is being ignored (that seems to work only for printable characters) changing manually the value using substr() sort of works, but this way the caret moves to the end of the input field (and I want to be able to delete characters in the middle of the input field, just like when using a normal keyboard).

simulate backspace key on text input field

Can someone provide a good example to simulate the backspace key on a <INPUT> text field?

I need this for a virtual keyboard done in HTML5 and it only needs to work in Webkit browsers.

Notes:

createEvent/initTextEvent/dispatchEvent with charcode 8 (backspace) is being ignored (that seems to work only for printable characters)
changing manually the value using substr() sort of works, but this way the caret moves to the end of the input field (and I want to be able to delete characters in the middle of the input field, just like when using a normal keyboard).