Question

Is there a vanilla JavaScript cross-browser function available that is able to trigger a click event on a HTML DOM element (including non-form elements like a div)?

Answer 1

Found this elusive function on Mozilla documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Document.createEvent, and here too: http://javascript.gakaa.com/document-createevent-4-0-5-.aspx

function performClick(node) {
    var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
    evt.initEvent("mousedown", true, true);
    document.getElementById("myElement").dispatchEvent(evt);
}