How to programmatically trigger a click on a link using jquery?

Question

How to programmatically trigger a click on a link using jquery?

Answer 1

$('#your_link_id').click() 

See the excellent jquery docs for more information.

Answer 2

If you have an anchor link:

 <a id="my_link_id" href="something">My Link</a> 

this will fail, as the other answers mentioned. Calling .eq and .trigger ('click') does not work for me, but it does:

 $('#your_link_id').get(0).click(); 

In my particular case, I assigned the blob url programmatically to the href binding.

Answer 3

You can use trigger :

 $('#your_link_id').trigger('click'); 

Answer 4

 $('#your_link_id')[0].trigger('click'); 

required because jQuery returns an array and we cannot trigger a click on multiple eventlinks. You must target only one item