Question

Disclaimer:
Ok I know that this is being discussed in the thread linked below, but it isn’t solving my problem.
How to make onclick automatically through onload function

Issue:
I want to include a ‘tweet’ button in an HTML email. Obviously since you cannot run js in most clients this isn’t feasible. My theoretical solution to have an image link that says tweet that opens a new window who’s sole purpose is to house and fire a jQuery click event on an actual tweet button.

I’m trying to use this bit of simple syntax to no avail:

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#autoClick2').trigger("click");
});

with this <a id="autoClick2" href="mailto:[e-mail]">ugh</a>

I also tried:

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#autoClick2').click();
});`

No dice on either, anyone have an idea?

Answer 1

That seems a roundabout way of accomplishing your task, which is, if I understood correctly, simply to tweet something. Why not simply make that in-email “Tweet this” image a link to Twitter’s share URL? Here’s a quick (and dirty) example using the URL from this question:

<a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fq%2f8826132%2f114900&amp;text=Using%20to%20jQuery%20to%20fire%20an%20anchor%20tag%20%27click%27%20on%20load">
<img src="http://a4.twimg.com/images/favicon.ico" alt="Tweet this" />
</a>

Implemented:

http://a4.twimg.com/images/favicon.ico Tweet this

For a more refined example, see the “Build Your Own Tweet Button” section of Twitter’s development documentation.