re-firing a click event on a link with jQuery

Question

i\'ve got a page (asp.net) where I trap the click event of a link. i then do some dirty checking and present a dialog to the user,

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Answer 1

you can use the trigger function, Change:

$(clickedLink).click();

to

$(clickedLink).trigger("click");

A better way would be to separate your click functionality out into a separate function and call this, however the above will work.

Answer 2

.click() only fires the event handlers for onclick, it doesn't actually make the default action of following the link happen. Probably the quickest method is just to do that manually:

window.location= clickedLink.href;

PS. “lose”