Using jQuery to programmatically click an a link

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I know this question has been asked before  but after a search on the web I can t seem to find a straight forward answer   the HTML   lt a id myAnchor href index php gt    the jQuery  Both of these do not work        myAnchor   click      or       myAnchor   trigger  click      What is the simplest and most efficient way to achieve this

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I had similar issue  try this     myAnchor   get 0  click   this works for me

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If you are using jQuery  you can do it with jQuery trigger http   api jquery com trigger   Example   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html lang  en  gt   lt head gt       lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt       lt title gt  lt  title gt       lt script type  text javascript  src  https   code jquery com jquery-2 2 3 js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt a id  foo  onclick  action    gt  lt  a gt       lt script type  text javascript  gt          function action                window location replace  http   stackoverflow com q 9081426 5526354                          foo   trigger  click         lt  script gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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lt a href     id  myAnchor  gt Click me lt  a gt    lt script type  text javascript  gt    document  ready function            myAnchor   click function           window location href    index php               lt  script gt

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I tried few of the above solutions but they didn t worked for me  Here is a link to the page which worked for me automatically click a link  Above link has many solutions and here s the one which worked for me        lt button onclick  fun     gt Magic button lt  button gt        lt  --The link you want to automatically click-- gt       lt a href  http   www ercafe com  id  myAnchor  gt My website lt  a gt    Now within the  lt script gt  tags    lt script gt        function fun              actuateLink document getElementById  myAnchor                  function actuateLink link                   var allowDefaultAction   true             if  link click                            link click                  return                        else if  document createEvent                            var e   document createEvent  MouseEvents                  e initEvent                      click         event type                     true         can bubble                      true         cancelable                                 allowDefaultAction   link dispatchEvent e                                     if  allowDefaultAction                                   var f   document createElement  form                  f action   link href                document body appendChild f                 f submit                        lt  script gt    Copy paste the above code and click on clicking the  Magic button  button  you will be redirected to ErCafe com

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Add onclick  window location   this href  to your  lt a gt  element  After this modification it could be  click  ed with expected behaviour  To do so with every link on your page  you can add this    lt script type  text javascript  gt        function                 a   attr  onclick    window location   this href             lt  script gt

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window location   document getElementById  myAnchor   href

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Try this       myAnchor   0  click      It works for me

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Try this for compatibility    lt script type  text javascript  gt            function                 setTimeout function                     window location href       myAnchor   attr  href                    1500                    lt  script gt

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Click just triggers the click event   events not the actually  goto-the-links-href  action   You have to write your own handler and then your     myAnchor   trigger  click    will work         myAnchor   click function event      var link     this     var target   link attr  target       if   trim target  length  gt  0          window open link attr  href    target         else          window location   link attr  href           event preventDefault

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