The following code is throwing two alerts as expected in IE but not in Firefox. Please help.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function myFunction(){
alert('myfunc');
document.getElementById('mylabel').click();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<p id='mylabel' onclick="alert('you reached');"></p>
<input type='button' value="Click me" onclick='myFunction();'/>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Answer
Firefox only has a click() function for form elements such as buttons. However, you can call the onClick function directly; you can change the line to
document.getElementById('mylabel').onclick();
This works in firefox or IE (but note that it requires that the function actually exists, which you know it does in this example).
Also note that you aren’t actually simulating a click on that element (so, for example, if there were other things that such a click would do, such as also act as a click on the container, they won’t happen). You’re just getting the function that would run on a click, and running it directly. So it’s not a solution for all situations where you need to simulate a click.