In JavaScript can I make a “click” event fire programmatically for a file input element?

Question

I\'d like to make a click event fire on an tag programmatically.

Just calling click() doesn\'t seem to do anything or at lea

Answer 1

You can fire click() on any browser but some browsers need the element to be visible and focused. Here's a jQuery example:

$('#input_element').show();
$('#input_element').focus();
$('#input_element').click();
$('#input_element').hide();

It works with the hide before the click() but I don't know if it works without calling the show method. Never tried this on Opera, I tested on IE/FF/Safari/Chrome and it works. I hope this will help.