Question

I have a simple link click simulation that I want to do using jQuery. From what I read, this should work, but the code below doesn’t work. Nothing happens if I do the same thing as a part of some other event or something either. Thoughts?

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $("#lnk_0").click();
  });
</script>

<a id="lnk_0" href="http://mydomain.com/mypage.html">link</a>

Answer 1

See click():

Triggers the click event of each
matched element.

Causes all of the functions that have
been bound to that click event to be
executed.

The important thing to note is that it does not duplicate clicking the link. It only triggers associated events. If you want to change location:

var link = $("#link_0");
link.click();
window.location.href = link.attr("href");

but even that is only an approximation as it doesn’t cater for handlers stopping event propagation.