how to trigger Live() click in jquery

Question

I have an interesting situation. I need to trigger a live click, because simple click doesn't work.

This is what I have:

$('.text').trigger('click');

but I need something like this:

$('.text').trigger(live('click' ...));

or something to fix this problem.

This is my code:

$(".Sets a.largeImage").fancybox({

  'onComplete': function(){
    return errorimage(myurl);
  } 

});

function errorimage(url) {

  $("#fancybox-img").live('click', function(){
   $('.lightbox:first').trigger('click');
  });

  $('#fancybox-img').trigger('click');

}   

The idea is that I want to trigger $('.lightbox:first').trigger('click');, but in live mode, because simple click doesn't work!

Thank you !!!!

Answer 1

The best solution would be to put your click handler in a separate function.

You can then call this function both from the live click handler and when you want to manually trigger the click.

Answer 2

I had the same problem when using Lightbox2 which binds the click event using live(). In my case the solution was to trigger the event like this:

jQuery**('a[rel^="lightbox"]')**.ready(function () {
jQuery("#myimglink").trigger("click");
})

As you can see i was triggering the event only after all the images that are using lightbox are ready. Hope it will help you all - this being my first contribution to stackoverflow :).