Trigger a click event on an inner element

Answer 1

I think .click() or .trigger("click") only fires the event handlers for onclick.

See a sample here http://jsfiddle.net/sethi/bEDPp/4/ . Manually clicking on the link shows 2 alerts while firing the event through jQuery shows only 1 alert.

You can also refer to this link : re-firing a click event on a link with jQuery

Solution

If you are just looking to open a fancybox try this:

$("table tr").bind('click',function(e) {
        var elem = $(e.target);
        if(elem.is('a')){
            return;    
        }
        e.stopImmediatePropagation();
        var parent= elem.is('tr') ? elem:elem.parents("tr").eq(0);
        parent.find("a").trigger('click.fb');
    });

where click.fb is the event that fancybox binds with the anchor element.