Question

Website has the following code:

<ul class="left">
    <li><div id="run" class="button"><div class="inner">Run</div></div></li>
</ul>

And this script:

$("#run").click(function() {...});

The following code doesn’t work!:(

document.getElementById('run').click();

How to press the button “Run” by javascript command to browser?

Thanks a lot for help!

Answer 1

Good old Javascript:

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
var run = document.getElementById("run"); 
run.dispatchEvent(evt);

In jQuery:

$("#run").click();

More docs aboute firing mouse events manually.