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Asked: 2026-06-01T11:08:56+00:00

Here’s a contrived example of my code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN

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Here’s a contrived example of my code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>    
        <title></title>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=".css"/>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <a href="http://www.google.com" class="foo">YahOO</a>
        </div>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
       <script type="text/javascript">
            $("document").ready(function() {
                $("#foo").trigger('click');
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

I would like to have the link fired immediately upon page load. The above does not work and is incorrect? How could this be done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have the class foo set on your element, not an id so you need to use .foo. Also, as @JusticeErolin pointed out, the document ready handler doesn’t need quotes. Try this:

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

    For reference, $("#foo") will look for an element with id="foo", of which there should only ever be one in your page as ids should be unique.

    $(".foo") will look for elements with class="foo", of which you can have as many as you like.

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