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How do I programmatically click on an element in JavaScript?

rated 0 times [ 73] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 127604 / 15 Years ago, thu, april 30, 2009, 12:00:00

In IE, I can just call element.click() from JavaScript - how do I accomplish the same task in Firefox? Ideally I'd like to have some JavaScript that would work equally well cross-browser, but if necessary I'll have different per-browser JavaScript for this.

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answered 15 Years ago agustindejonm · Accepted Answer

The document.createEvent documentation says that The createEvent method is deprecated. Use event constructors instead.

So you should use this method instead:

var clickEvent = new MouseEvent(click, {

    view: window,

    bubbles: true,

    cancelable: false

});

and fire it on an element like this:

element.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);

as shown here.