The typical use case for firing a change event is when you set a field programmatically and you want event handlers to be called since calling input.value="Something" won't trigger a change event.

Mar 22, 2010 · I have attached an event to a text box using addEventListener. It works fine. My problem arose when I wanted to trigger the event programmatically from another function. How can I do it?

I am trying to trigger a document click programatically. My test-comp are shown in multiple places in a page and I want to hide them all when the test-comp is clicked or a document click is fired...

Closed 5 years ago. I want to trigger a click event using javaScript. I've done it using jQuery like this:

Are you trying to cause the user to navigate to a certain point on the webpage by clicking the anchor, or are you trying to trigger events bound to it? Maybe you haven't actually bound the click event …

Sep 25, 2019 · Use element.click(); instead of element.trigger('click'); but also, you need to either get only a single element, or loop over the returned HTMLCollection from .getElementsByClassName(). …

The Event interface represents an event which takes place in the DOM. An event can be triggered by the user action e.g. clicking the mouse button or tapping keyboard, or generated by APIs to …

Using jQuery's trigger mechanism certainly won't do it, because it doesn't really trigger a click event at all; it just fires the handlers that jQuery hooked up (edit: and, apparently, ones defined via an onclick …

That's not how event bubbling works, though - if you click an outer element, it's ancestors receive the click event as it bubbles up, but its children don't. Imagine if your outer div contained a button or a …

Aug 26, 2014 · How would you trigger a click event from an element that supposedly does not have native clickable behaviours? For example, I know that you could simply just use the following: …