Question

I’m trying to trigger click event on hyperlink with jQuery like the way below. Hyperlink does not have any id but it does have css class:

$(document).ready(function () {  
  $('.cssbuttongo').trigger('click'); 
}); 

The function above is not working. This is the hyperlink:

<a href="hyperlinkurl" class="cssbuttongo">hyperlink anchor</a>

Answer 1

I do not have factual evidence to prove this but I already ran into this issue. It seems that triggering a click() event on an <a> tag doesn’t seem to behave the same way you would expect with say, a input button.

The workaround I employed was to set the location.href property on the window which causes the browser to load the request resource like so:

$(document).ready(function()
{
      var href = $('.cssbuttongo').attr('href');
      window.location.href = href; //causes the browser to refresh and load the requested url
   });
});

Edit:

I would make a js fiddle but the nature of the question intermixed with how jsfiddle uses an iframe to render code makes that a no go.