Question

Is there any way how to get element selector which was clicked by trigger? I’m trying to avoid specification of certain element in trigger method like $("#certain_element").trigger(e); I want to call a trigger on some position in the page defined by pageX and pageY params and then get an element which was clicked.

var e = new jQuery.Event("click");
e.pageX = 80;
e.pageY = 40;
$('*').trigger(e);

$('*').click(function() {
  alert('This element was clicked:'+$(this).get(0).tagName);
});

This script isn’t working correctly.

Answer 1

Based on the comments from Andrew and Anurag:

$(document.elementFromPoint(80, 40))
  .trigger('click')
  .css('background-color', 'blue');