Question

I’m trying to simulate a user clicking an element by using:

      el = document.getElementById('#inputToClick');
      oEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
      oEvent.initMouseEvent("click", true, false, window, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
      el.dispatchEvent(oEvent);

This works for another site where jQuery’s $el.click() does not, but I’ve found a site where jQuery’s click works but the above does not. I was hoping some one could point me to the relevant parts of the jQuery source.

Answer 1

If you’re realy looking for the source of the click function of jQuery 1.7.2:

function (data, fn) {
    if (fn == null) {
        fn = data;
        data = null;
    }

    return arguments.length > 0 ? this.on(name, null, data, fn) : this.trigger(name);
}

source:
Jquery.Click Function

And if you just wanted to know how to click on something…

$('#inputToClick').click();