How do I programmatically click a link with javascript

Question

Is there a way to click on a link on my page using JavaScript

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Client Side JS function to automatically click a link when...

Here is an example where you check the value of a hidden form input, which holds an error passed down from the server.. your client side JS then checks the value of it and populates an error in another location that you specify..in this case a pop-up login modal.

var signUperror = document.getElementById('handleError')

if (signUperror) {
  if(signUperror.innerHTML != ""){
  var clicker = function(){
    document.getElementById('signup').click()
  }
  clicker()
  }
}

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For me  I managed to make it work that way  I deployed the automatic click in 5000 milliseconds and then closed the loop after 1000 milliseconds  Then there was only 1 automatic click   lt script gt  var myVar   setInterval function   document getElementById  quot test quot   click      500    setInterval function     clearInterval myVar    1000    lt  script gt

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If you only want to change the current page address  you can do that by simply doing this in Javascript    location href    http   www example com test

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You can t make the user s mouse do anything  But you have full control over what happens when an event triggers   What you can do is do a click on body load  W3Schools has an example here

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You could just redirect them to another page  Actually making it literally click a link and travel to it seems unnessacary  but I don t know the whole story

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Simply like that      lt a id  myLink  onclick  alert  link click     gt LINK 1 lt  a gt   lt a id  myLink2  onclick  document getElementById  myLink   click    gt Click link 1 lt  a gt    or at page load      lt body onload  document getElementById  myLink   click    gt       lt a id  myLink  onclick  alert  link click     gt LINK 1 lt  a gt       lt  body gt

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Instead of clicking  can you forward to the URL that the click would go to using Javascript     Maybe you could put something in the body onLoad  to go where you want

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Many of the above methods have been deprecated  It is now recommended to use the constructor found here  function clickAnchorTag         var event   document createEvent  MouseEvent        event   new CustomEvent  click        var a   document getElementById  nameOfID        a dispatchEvent event       This will cause the anchor tag to be clicked  but it wont show if pop-up blockers are active so the user will need to allow pop-ups

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document getElementById  yourLinkID   click

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This function works in at least Firefox  and Internet Explorer  It runs any event handlers attached to the link and loads the linked page if the event handlers don t cancel the default action   function clickLink link        var cancelled   false       if  document createEvent            var event   document createEvent  MouseEvents            event initMouseEvent  click   true  true  window              0  0  0  0  0              false  false  false  false              0  null           cancelled    link dispatchEvent event             else if  link fireEvent            cancelled    link fireEvent  onclick               if   cancelled            window location   link href

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The jQuery way to click a link is      LinkID   click      For mailTo link  you have to write the following code      LinkID   0  click

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