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Paul
Paul

Reputation: 608

Click link on load with jQuery

Here's a contrived example of my code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>    
        <title></title>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=".css"/>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <a href="http://www.google.com" class="foo">YahOO</a>
        </div>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
       <script type="text/javascript">
            $("document").ready(function() {
                $("#foo").trigger('click');
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

I would like to have the link fired immediately upon page load. The above does not work and is incorrect? How could this be done?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 43529

Answers (3)

Irshad Khan
Irshad Khan

Reputation: 6046

I tried many options, but I found one option which worked for me :

$(document).ready(function(){ 
     $('#upload-file')[0].click(function(){
     }); 
});

Upvotes: 1

user4255991
user4255991

Reputation: 1

You have to wait until controls are loaded on the page

add this to the bottom on the page

<script>
$(document).ready(function(e){
$("#whateverElement").click();
});
</script>

Upvotes: -2

Rory McCrossan
Rory McCrossan

Reputation: 337560

You have the class foo set on your element, not an id so you need to use .foo. Also, as @JusticeErolin pointed out, the document ready handler doesn't need quotes. Try this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(".foo").trigger('click');
});

For reference, $("#foo") will look for an element with id="foo", of which there should only ever be one in your page as ids should be unique.

$(".foo") will look for elements with class="foo", of which you can have as many as you like.

Upvotes: 17

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