How can I trigger a JavaScript event click
UPDATE
This was an old answer. Nowadays you should just use click. For more advanced event firing, use dispatchEvent.
const body = document.body;
body.addEventListener('click', e => {
console.log('clicked body');
});
console.log('Using click()');
body.click();
console.log('Using dispatchEvent');
body.dispatchEvent(new Event('click'));
Original Answer
Here is what I use: http://jsfiddle.net/mendesjuan/rHMCy/4/
Updated to work with IE9+
/**
* Fire an event handler to the specified node. Event handlers can detect that the event was fired programatically
* by testing for a 'synthetic=true' property on the event object
* @param {HTMLNode} node The node to fire the event handler on.
* @param {String} eventName The name of the event without the "on" (e.g., "focus")
*/
function fireEvent(node, eventName) {
// Make sure we use the ownerDocument from the provided node to avoid cross-window problems
var doc;
if (node.ownerDocument) {
doc = node.ownerDocument;
} else if (node.nodeType == 9){
// the node may be the document itself, nodeType 9 = DOCUMENT_NODE
doc = node;
} else {
throw new Error("Invalid node passed to fireEvent: " + node.id);
}
if (node.dispatchEvent) {
// Gecko-style approach (now the standard) takes more work
var eventClass = "";
// Different events have different event classes.
// If this switch statement can't map an eventName to an eventClass,
// the event firing is going to fail.
switch (eventName) {
case "click": // Dispatching of 'click' appears to not work correctly in Safari. Use 'mousedown' or 'mouseup' instead.
case "mousedown":
case "mouseup":
eventClass = "MouseEvents";
break;
case "focus":
case "change":
case "blur":
case "select":
eventClass = "HTMLEvents";
break;
default:
throw "fireEvent: Couldn't find an event class for event '" + eventName + "'.";
break;
}
var event = doc.createEvent(eventClass);
event.initEvent(eventName, true, true); // All events created as bubbling and cancelable.
event.synthetic = true; // allow detection of synthetic events
// The second parameter says go ahead with the default action
node.dispatchEvent(event, true);
} else if (node.fireEvent) {
// IE-old school style, you can drop this if you don't need to support IE8 and lower
var event = doc.createEventObject();
event.synthetic = true; // allow detection of synthetic events
node.fireEvent("on" + eventName, event);
}
};
Note that calling fireEvent(inputField, 'change');
does not mean it will actually change the input field. The typical use case for firing a change event is when you set a field programmatically and you want event handlers to be called since calling input.value="Something"
won't trigger a change event.
Performing a single click on an HTML element: Simply do element.click()
. Most major browsers support this.
To repeat the click more than once: Add an ID to the element to uniquely select it:
<a href="#" target="_blank" id="my-link" onclick="javascript:Test('Test');">Google Chrome</a>
and call the .click()
method in your JavaScript code via a for loop:
var link = document.getElementById('my-link');
for(var i = 0; i < 50; i++)
link.click();