PhantomJS; click an element

Question

How do I click an element in PhantomJS?

page.evaluate(function() {
    document.getElementById(\'idButtonSpan\').click();  
});

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Answer 1

Alternatively to @torazaburo's response, you could stub HTMLElement.prototype.click when running in PhantomJS. For example, we use PhantomJS + QUnit to run our tests and in our qunit-config.js we have something like this:

if (window._phantom) {
  // Patch since PhantomJS does not implement click() on HTMLElement. In some 
  // cases we need to execute the native click on an element. However, jQuery's 
  // $.fn.click() does not dispatch to the native function on  elements, so we
  // can't use it in our implementations: $el[0].click() to correctly dispatch.
  if (!HTMLElement.prototype.click) {
    HTMLElement.prototype.click = function() {
      var ev = document.createEvent('MouseEvent');
      ev.initMouseEvent(
          'click',
          /*bubble*/true, /*cancelable*/true,
          window, null,
          0, 0, 0, 0, /*coordinates*/
          false, false, false, false, /*modifier keys*/
          0/*button=left*/, null
      );
      this.dispatchEvent(ev);
    };
  }
}