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Asked: 2026-06-07T10:06:41+00:00

I was looking for a way to simulate a click on <a> tag as

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I was looking for a way to simulate a click on <a> tag

as you all know , no success ( the only workaround is by window.open…)

however i found some peaces of code in the net and managed to make it work in :

http://jsbin.com/itujek/5/edit

Chrome
IE

the problem is with FF.

I’ll be glad to share the code with you , and towards a solution which will wrk in FF.

what should i do in this code in order for this code wo work with FF ?

  <script>
        function doClick(event, myA)
        {
            if (myA.click)
            {
                myA.click()
            }
            else if (document.createEvent)
            {
                if (event.target !== myA)
                {
                    var tmpEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
                    tmpEvent.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
                    var allowDefault = myA.dispatchEvent(tmpEvent);
                }
            }
        }


      $(document).ready(function(){

            $(".myBtn").on('click',function (event) 
                           { doClick(event, $("#link")[0]);    });
      });



    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <a id="link" href="http://www.msdn.com">Normal link</a>
    <button type="button" class="myBtn"   >
        do click</button>
    <br />
    <br />
</body>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You may try to use jquery.simulate.js :

    $(elem).simulate(mouse_or_keyboard_event_type, options);

    Supported event types:

    • mouse: mouseover, mouseout, mousedown, mouseup, mousemove, click, dblclick
    • keyboard: keyup, keydown, keypress
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