How to trigger ngClick programmatically

angular.element(domElement).triggerHandler('click');

EDIT: It appears that you have to break out of the current $apply() cycle. One way to do this is using $timeout():

$timeout(function() {
    angular.element(domElement).triggerHandler('click');
}, 0);

See fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/t34z7/

This following solution works for me :

angular.element(document.querySelector('#myselector')).click();

instead of :

angular.element('#myselector').triggerHandler('click');

Just in case everybody see's it, I added additional duplicating answer with an important line which will not break event propagation

$scope.clickOnUpload = function ($event) {    
    $event.stopPropagation(); // <-- this is important

    $timeout(function() {
        angular.element(domElement).trigger('click');
    }, 0);
};

The syntax is the following:

function clickOnUpload() {
  $timeout(function() {
    angular.element('#myselector').triggerHandler('click');
  });
};

// Using Angular Extend
angular.extend($scope, {
  clickOnUpload: clickOnUpload
});

// OR Using scope directly
$scope.clickOnUpload = clickOnUpload;

More info on Angular Extend way here.

If you are using old versions of angular, you should use trigger instead of triggerHandler.

If you need to apply stop propagation you can use this method as follows:

<a id="myselector" ng-click="clickOnUpload(); $event.stopPropagation();">
  Something
</a>