How to click a link from javascript

Question

I would like to click a link in my page using javascript. I would like to Fire event handlers on the link without navigating. How can this be done?

Thanks

Answer 1

With JQuery It would be like this.

$("#YOUR_A_TAG_ID").click();

This only fires the function assigned to the click event. It will not navigate to the path specified in the href attribute.

JQuery documentation for click