Click anchor, and be brought to linked page

Question

I have a anchor on which I trigger a click with JavaScript. Please see this fiddle.

$(function() {
    $('a').click();
});

For some reason, triggering the click does not bring me to the page specified by the href attribute of the anchor.

How can I have the click event also bring me to the page linked by the anchor?

possible duplicate of [How can I simulate an anchor click via jquery?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/773639/how-can-i-simulate-an-anchor-click-via-jquery) — Felix Kling, Mar 24 '13 at 01:18
It is the same question, but the chosen answer is wrong. @Stevanicus had the right answer. — MLewisCodeSolutions, Mar 24 '13 at 19:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '13 at 01:28

It will not work like that, the call $('a').click(); is a short cut for $('a').trigger('click'); which tries to simulate a click action on the anchor element.

But the simulation is not absolute, though it will fire the registered event handler it will not completely simulate a use click trigger the default action.

As per the jquery doc for trigger

Description: Execute all handlers and behaviors attached to the matched elements for the given event type.

and

Although .trigger() simulates an event activation, complete with a synthesized event object, it does not perfectly replicate a naturally-occurring event.

So I don't think it is possible to completely simulate a user action and trigger a redirection using this method

`$('a').get(0).click();` gets around the trigger method. – MLewisCodeSolutions Mar 24 '13 at 19:03 — MLewisCodeSolutions, Mar 24 '13 at 19:03

MLewisCodeSolutions · Answer 2 · 2013-03-24T18:55:38.310

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Seems to be something to do with jQuery and the trigger method, works fine when you change [object object] to [object]. Here is the fiddle. Enjoy!

$(function() {
    $('a').get(0).click();
});

edited Mar 24 '13 at 18:55

answered Mar 24 '13 at 06:49

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Click anchor, and be brought to linked page

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