Anchor click() method

[c...@anna-and-dale.com]

I wish to force an anchor element to have its onclick() event fired.
In IE I just call the click() method on the anchor but this doesn't
work in Firefox (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/
DOM:element.click) so is there another way to accomplish this?

Cheers,

[Boris Zbarsky]

c...@anna-and-dale.com wrote:
> I wish to force an anchor element to have its onclick() event fired.

You can use DOM2 Events for this. Note that that won't trigger the link
traversal unless you're privileged script, but it _will_ fire onclick handlers.

-Boris

[CoolKiwiBloke]

I'm assuming you mean something like this?

var evt = document.createEvent("UIEvents");
evt.initUIEvent("click", true, true, window, 1);
AnchorFieldObj.dispatchEvent(evt);

Unfortunately the onClick event on the Anchor element doesn't fire
with this so I assume I am doing something wrong?

Cheers,

[Boris Zbarsky]

CoolKiwiBloke wrote:
> var evt = document.createEvent("UIEvents");

I'd use MouseEvents myself. And initMouseEvent.

-Boris

[CoolKiwiBloke]

Hmmm... even using the following code the onclick() event handler
never fires... am I still missing something?

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false,
false, false, false, 0, null);
AnchorFieldObj.dispatchEvent(evt);

[Boris Zbarsky]

CoolKiwiBloke wrote:
> Hmmm... even using the following code the onclick() event handler
> never fires... am I still missing something?
>
> var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
> evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false,
> false, false, false, 0, null);
> AnchorFieldObj.dispatchEvent(evt);

Offhand that looks like it should work....

-Boris

[CoolKiwiBloke]

You're absolulte correct - it is working! I had something else wrong
as well. Thanks for your help - much appreciated!