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jqueryeventstriggersonclick
Abhilash M
Abhilash M

Reputation: 39

Fake an onclick event using jquery

I want to open a hyperlink (which contains some 3rd party app) on page load.

I am not sure how I can load it in page without clicking it. So I have to fake the onclick event. Please help.

I tried using Jquery :

$( "#id_1" ).trigger( "click" );

But its not working.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 174

Answers (2)

Jai
Jai

Reputation: 74738

As a simple answer to this is, It won't be triggered because the element does not seem to have a jQuery event bound to it.

What your code says:

$( "#id_1" ).trigger( "click" );

It says that trigger the jQuery click event which is bound to #id_1

So either you mock it up

$("#id_1").on("click", function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    window.location.href = this.getAttribute('href');
}).trigger('click'); // this gets triggered on page load.

Upvotes: 0

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318252

trigger() triggers jQuery event handlers, not the native functionality of an anchor? What you're probably looking for is 

window.location = $('#id_1').attr('href');

Not sure why you would want to do that on pageload, but the point is that you have to manually fake the default functionality of the anchor.

Also, depending on what the anchor really does, you could try the native click() method and see if that does what you want.

document.getElementById('id_1').click()

Upvotes: 1

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