How to trigger click event on href element

Question

I'm trying to trigger click event on hyperlink with jQuery like the way below. Hyperlink does not have any id but it does have css class:

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

The function above is not working. This is the hyperlink:

<a href="hyperlinkurl" class="cssbuttongo">hyperlink anchor</a> 

Answer 1

The native DOM method does the right thing:

$('.cssbuttongo')[0].click();                   ^               Important! 

This works regardless of whether the href is a URL, a fragment (e.g. #blah) or even a javascript:.

Note that this calls the DOM click method instead of the jQuery click method (which is very incomplete and completely ignores href).

Answer 2

I do not have factual evidence to prove this but I already ran into this issue. It seems that triggering a click() event on an <a> tag doesn't seem to behave the same way you would expect with say, a input button.

The workaround I employed was to set the location.href property on the window which causes the browser to load the request resource like so:

$(document).ready(function() {       var href = $('.cssbuttongo').attr('href');       window.location.href = href; //causes the browser to refresh and load the requested url    }); }); 

Edit:

I would make a js fiddle but the nature of the question intermixed with how jsfiddle uses an iframe to render code makes that a no go.