[removed] simulate a click on a link

Question

I have a link that has a listener attached to it (I\'m using YUI):

YAHOO.util.Event.on(Element, \'click\', function(){ /* some functionality */});
         


        

Answer 1

MDC has a good example of using dispatchEvent to simulate click events.

Here is some code to simulate a click on an element that also checks if something canceled the event:

function simulateClick(elm) {
  var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
  evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window,
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
  var canceled = !elm.dispatchEvent(evt);
  if(canceled) {
    // A handler called preventDefault
    // uh-oh, did some XSS hack your site?
  } else {
    // None of the handlers called preventDefault
    // do stuff
  }
}