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I have code which is trivial but only works in IE not Firefox.
$(document).ready(function(){
$('li#first').click();
});
I have also tried:
document.getElementById('first').click();
But that doesn't work either.
Is this an IE bug/feature or is click() not supported in the other browsers?
Responding to comments:
$('li#first').click() only the new event fired, but physically clicking the element with the mouse fired both (new and original).Thanks in advance.
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Firefox does not support click().
Running document.getElementById('first').click() returns the following error click is not a function
So I added a snippet of code to add click() functionality to every element. This code was found after a painful series of google searches resulting in this thread.
The snippet is below and needs to be included just once on the page:
HTMLElement.prototype.click = function() {
var evt = this.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, this.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
this.dispatchEvent(evt);
}
Your code should work in Firefox. Here's a full snippet that proves it:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title></title>
<style type="text/css"><!--
--></style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
jQuery(function($){
$(document).ready(function(){
$('li#first')
.click(function(){
alert("I've been clicked: " + $(this).text());
})
.click();
});
});
//--></script>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li id="first">First item</li>
<li>Second item</li>
<li>Third item</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
try this html
<a id="link" href="url">click here</a>
js
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#link").click(function(){
window.location.href = $(this).attr('href');
});
});
also if this is somethng you don't want to do theb also try something like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#link")[0].click();
});
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