Question

I have a BulletedList in asp.net that is set to DisplayMode=’LinkButton’. I would like to trigger the first ‘bullet’ from a javascript, can this be done? And if so, how?

Answer 1

Say you have the BulletedList as

<asp:BulletedList runat='server' ID='MyLovelyBulletedList' DisplayMode='LinkButton'>     <asp:ListItem Text='My Lovely Text 1' />     <asp:ListItem Text='My Lovely Text 2' /> </asp:BulletedList> 

… then you can fire the ‘onclick’ event like this (cross-browser):

var links = document.getElementById('<%= MyLovelyBulletedList.ClientID %>').getElementsByTagName('a');  var targetLink = links[0];  if (targetLink.fireEvent) {     // IE     targetLink.fireEvent('onclick'); } else if (targetLink.dispatchEvent) {     // W3C     var evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');      evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, window,         0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);      targetLink.dispatchEvent(evt); }