Question

I’ve been trying to use jquery to trigger a click.

I’ve discovered that triggered clicks, like this: $(button).trigger(‘click’); do not follow hrefs. I’ve been trying to make an ajax submission by triggering the submit button, but no go.

I know I can submit directly. But is there any way of triggering the button? Thanks.

Answer 1

jQuery does not trigger the native “click” on A elements on purpose. I don’t know why.

But you can use the technique they use to trigger the link yourself:

$link[0].click(); // extract the native DOM element and trigger the click

This is untested but it is extracted from jQuery source code and should work.