Using jQuery to programmatically click an link

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

<a id=myAnchor href=index.php>

the jQuery (Both of these do not work)

 $('#myAnchor').click();

$('#myAnchor').trigger('click');

What is the simplest and most efficient way to achieve this?

user3346133

Try this:

$('#myAnchor')[0].click();

It works for me.

window.location = document.getElementById('myAnchor').href

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 > 0)
  {
    window.open(link.attr("href"), target);
  }
  else
  {
     window.location = link.attr("href");
  }

  event.preventDefault();
});

<a href="#" id="myAnchor">Click me</a>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#myAnchor').click(function(){
       window.location.href = 'index.php';
    });
})
</script>

Add onclick="window.location = this.href" to your <a> 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:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        $("a").attr("onclick", "window.location = this.href");
    });
</script>

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,

    <button onclick="fun();">Magic button</button>

    <!--The link you want to automatically click-->
    <a href='http://www.ercafe.com' id="myAnchor">My website</a>

Now within the <script> tags,

<script>

     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();
          }
    }

</script>

Copy paste the above code and click on clicking the 'Magic button' button, you will be redirected to ErCafe.com.

If you are using jQuery, you can do it with jQuery.trigger http://api.jquery.com/trigger/

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <a id="foo" onclick="action()"></a>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function action(){
            window.location.replace("http://stackoverflow.com/q/9081426/5526354")
        }

        $("#foo").trigger("click");
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Try this for compatibility;

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            setTimeout(function() {
                window.location.href = $('#myAnchor').attr("href");

            }, 1500);
        });
    </script>

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9081426/using-jquery-to-programmatically-click-an-a-link

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