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

I had a tag hidden from view. What I did was attaching the "onClick" event to any visible component of any type such as a label. This was done using either Google Chrome's Developer Tools or Mozilla Firefox's Firebug using the right-click "edit HTML" command. In this event specify the following script or something similar:

If you have JQuery:

$('#id_of_component').click();

if not:

document.getElementById('id_of_component').click();

Thanks.