Click source in JavaScript and jQuery, human or automated?

Question

We all know that you can simulate click or any other event on an element using one of these ways:

$(\'#targetElement\').trigger(\'eventName\');
$(\'#targetEl         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

$('#targetElement').click(function(event, generated) {
    if (generated) {
        // Event was generated by code, not a user click.
    } else {
        // Event was generated by a user click.
    }
});

Then, to make this work, you have to trigger them like this:

$('#targetElement').trigger('click', [true]);

See this jsfiddle.