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

$(document).one('mousemove', function() { $(element).trigger('click') } );

Worked for me when I ran into similar problem, it's a regular eRube Goldberg.