Simulate a click on 'a' tag in Chrome

Question

I have a link ('a' tag). I'm trying to click it using JavaScript. While .click(); does well in Firefox and IE but it fails in Chrome. (Chrome says the object does not have the click method).

Triggering the 'onclick' or redirecting to the 'href' won't do the job.

Any ideas on how to do this? Preferably I wouldn't get an entire library just for this.

Answer 1

In non-IE-browsers use dispatchEvent()

Answer 2

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

should work in chrome