How to open Bootstrap dropdown programmatically

Question

I\'m trying to open a Bootstrap dropdown when I click a item of another dropdown.

The idea is to select a city from the first drop down - then the script will auto o

Answer 1

Bootstrap's dropdown plugin waits for 'click.bs.dropdown' event to show the menu, so in this case:

$('#sidebar_filter_areas').trigger('click.bs.dropdown');

should work. This will not trigger other 'click' events on same element if any.