Trigger a button click from a non-button element

Question

How would you trigger a click event from an element that supposedly does not have native clickable behaviours?

For example, I know that you could simply just use the

Answer 1

You will need to feature detect as different browsers (using non-html5 doctype) can support different dom methods:

var ele = document.getElementById('x');
if(typeof ele.click == 'function') {
  ele.click()
} else if(typeof ele.onclick == 'function') {
  ele.onclick()
}