Question

What I want to do is issue a click event, preferably with jQuery, on an anchor element, causing the browser to follow that link. I know that my anchor selectors are correct, as they are returning 1 from .length.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

$('#awesomeLink').click();

But it won’t follow the link.

How am I doing it wrong?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Why not just parse the url and send the user to that link location?

var url = $('#awesomeLink').attr('href');
window.location.href = url;