Simulating href click

[cesarcesar]

i need to simulated having clicked on a link with JavaScript. As you will see in my stripped down example the resulting function from the click is a window.addEvent() action. Thanks for the help.

 

js code -

window.addEvent('domready', function() {
     expandCollapse();
}

function expandCollapse(){
     $('expand').addEvent('click', function(){
          // do something
     }
}

 

html code -

<a id="expand" href="javascript:void(0);">open all</a>

 

i have tried this but id didnt work -

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

 

What is the code to make the window.addEvent() fire? *expand* must be part of it. Thank you.

[JasonLewis]

Do you mean the onClick event handler? Google it.

[cesarcesar]

thanks for your incredible help.    Been there done that. Didn't fine a great solution. Maybe you could actually help by pointing to a site reference instead of just raising your post count.

[cesarcesar]

Thanks to Fang -

 

Working Solution -

function fireOnclick(objID) {
var target=document.getElementById(objID);
if(document.dispatchEvent) { // W3C
    var oEvent = document.createEvent( "MouseEvents" );
    oEvent.initMouseEvent("click", true, true,window, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, false, false, false, false, 0, target);
    target.dispatchEvent( oEvent );
    }
else if(document.fireEvent) { // IE
    target.fireEvent("onclick");
    }    
}

[CroNiX]

It looks like you are using mootools.  Here is the info for 'fireEvent': http://mootools.net/docs/Element/Element.Event#Element:fireEvent

[cesarcesar]

thanks cronix.