click() firing multiple times

Question

I am using a document.getElementById(\"val\").click() to invoke a click event, but it keeps firing multiple times.

Here I add the eventHandler:

Answer 1

Usually when you have an event firing multiple times it is because the event is attached to an element more than once or the element you are auto clicking is a child of another element with the same event attached. Check to see if they are wrapped by each other and if so you will need to detect that the current target is equal to the target to make sure it only happens once. Or you can stop the event propagation.