JQuery click() not fired in ie8

Question

I\'m not a javascript professional so I can\'t solve the following code alone.

I have a delegate function which works fine in IE7. The Problem in IE8 I figuered out

Answer 1

What is subscribed to that click event?

I would expect the following to work:

//set up event
$('#impressionen').click(function() { 
    alert('it works!');
});

//alert should show in all browsers
$('#impressionen').click();

However this is a simple example - there are other things that can break this. How are you setting up the click event?

Answer 2

I am not sure whether this helps or not. But try replacing

$('#impressionen').click();

with

$('#impressionen').trigger('click');

See

trigger

Trigger an event on every matched element.