Question

the following code:

onLoad="$('#link_id').trigger('click');"

works in FF but does not trigger in IE. Is there a method which works both in IE and FF?

Answer 1

Are you jamming this, inline, into your HTML as an event handler in a tag somewhere?

Don’t do that.

Put it in an external .js file, or somewhere in a script block, after you’ve included the jQuery library, like this:

$(function() {
       $('#link_id').trigger('click');
});