JavaScript click a button by name from chrome console

Question

I\'m trying to click programmatically a button from a web page using chrome console.

(UPDATED)The code of the button looks like this :

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Answer 1

regarding the following HTML:

you should be aware of:

1. the character > should be entity encoded >
2. when an attribute doesn't use quotes (" or ') to delimit its value, all characters until the first space or > are interpreted as the value. In your case this means that name=BTN_CHOICE5/> translates to name="BTN_CJOICE5/">.

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If the exercise of clicking the button is meant to submit the

, you should know that synthetic events like .click() do not trigger default actions. May I suggest submitting the form instead?

document.querySelector('form').submit()