jQuery: trigger click() doesn't work?

Question

Why clicking on trigger1 and trigger2 doesn\'t fire click on open ?

Answer 1

It's important to clarify that doing jQuery('#open').click() does not execute the href attribute of an anchor tag so you will not be redirected. It executes the onclick event for #open which is not defined.

You can accomplish the redirect and the ability to cause it with your original jQuery('#open').click() code by giving #open a click event:

jQuery('#open').click( function (e) {
  window.location.href = this.href;
});