Question

I would like an element to trigger the next available on the page.

$("span.topic").click(function(){
    $("span.topic").next("a.page").trigger('click');
});

<div> 
    <span class="topic">Topic 1</span>
    <a class="page" href="http://www.google.com">Welcome to the first Topic</a>
</div>

Answer 1

jsBin demo

$('.topic').on('click', function(){
  window.location.href = $(this).next('a').attr('href');
});