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    How to trigger click using jQuery or Javascript

    on Feb 14, 2016

    Sometime we need to manually trigger a click event on an element (e.g. button). Here are Javascript and jQuery code snippets for this. This is the snapshot of outcome where we trigger a click from javascript.

    javascript-trigger-click

    Trigger click in jQuery

    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <button id="id1" onclick="handle_click()">click me</button><br/><br/>
    <div id="msg"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function handle_click() {
      document.querySelector("#msg").innerHTML = "clicked";
    }
    jQuery("#id1").trigger("click");
    </script>
    refresh done
    try it online

    Trigger click in Javascript

    <button id="id1" onclick="handle_click()">click me</button><br/><br/>
    <div id="msg"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function handle_click() {
      document.querySelector("#msg").innerHTML = "clicked";
    }
    document.querySelector("#id1").click();
    </script>
    refresh done
    try it online

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