Question

is it possible to trigger a click with jQuery that works cross browser?

html:

<a id="go-societe" href="#societe" class="societetrigger" >Societe</a>

works in firefox but doesn’t work in IE and chrome:

$('a.societetrigger')[0].click();

doesn’t work in firefox, IE and chrome:

$('a.societetrigger').click(function(){
    $('a.societetrigger').click();
});

Answer 1

is it possible to trigger a click with jQuery that works cross
browser?

Yes you just need to use jQuery…

$('a.societetrigger')[0] is a DOM element not a jQuery object, thus it won’t work, if you want only the first element wrap it with $():

$($('a.societetrigger')[0]).click();

or use the jQuery first function:

$('a.societetrigger').first().click();

The second code which doesn’t work in all the browsers, Attaches callback function to the click event which will trigger the click event… Does it sounds reasonable to you? to me it sounds like an infinite loop.