Question

This is probably such a simple question, but after reading a few tutorials and other posts on Stack Overflow, I couldn’t get what I was looking for.

Using the .click() function in jQuery, I want to click a specific X, and Y location on the page. All I found were tutorials on how to find coordinates, but not specifically click them.

Answer 1

See Using jQuery to find an element at a particular position?

To get the element under the point (x,y) use document.elementFromPoint. You can wrap this in a jquery object and invoke the click handler to simulate an actual click.

function click(x,y) {
   var element = document.elementFromPoint(x,y);
   $(element).click();
}

Be careful of the drawbacks using elementFromPoint regarding absolute coordinates vs viewport relative coordinates http://www.zehnet.de/2010/11/19/document-elementfrompoint-a-jquery-solution/