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Fire Javascript DOM Events

08.17.2008
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        Fire Javascript DOM events


function fireEvent(obj, evt) {
  var fireOnThis = obj;
  if (document.createEvent) {
    var evObj = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
    evObj.initEvent(evt, true, false);
    fireOnThis.dispatchEvent(evObj);
  else if (document.createEventObject) {
    fireOnThis.fireEvent("on" + evt);
  }
}


Usage: clicking on a link using Javascript

HTML

<a href="foo.html" id="fooanchor" style="display: none>Nothing to see here</a>

Javascript

fireEvent(document.getElementById('fooanchor'), "click")
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