click() (javascript) method is not working in FF

Question

The following code is throwing two alerts as expected in IE but not in Firefox. Please help.

Answer 1

There's no click method on elements. Are you using any library?

Usually you have to do something like element.fireEvent('click') (prototype, mootools)

or element.click() (jquery)

UPDATE- Similar question: How do I programmatically click on an element in JavaScript?

Looks like an ugly and brittle solution, if I were you I'd just include jQuery and let that handle all the browser quirks.