How can I trigger a JavaScript event click

Question

I have a hyperlink in my page. I am trying to automate a number of clicks on the hyperlink for testing purposes. Is there any way you can simulate 50 clicks on the hyperlink

Answer 1

Performing a single click on an HTML element: Simply do element.click(). Most major browsers support this.

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To repeat the click more than once: Add an ID to the element to uniquely select it:

Google Chrome

and call the .click() method in your JavaScript code via a for loop:

var link = document.getElementById('my-link');
for(var i = 0; i < 50; i++)
   link.click();