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.click event not triggering <a> to new page

in Using jQuery • 12 years ago

I have some simple code to make a link open on page load. When the code fires it shows the alert 'clicked' but then nothing happens. The url is generated with APEX and if i click the link on the page physically the alert fires and the page redirects to the linked Url. Why isn't the click event working?

jQuery:

$(document).ready(function(){
$('.myLink').click();
});

HTML:

<a href="{!Video.Url__c}" class="myLink" target="_parent" onclick="alert('clicked');">Open Video</a>

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dominique..

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12 years ago

Hello,

You can try without the click event, with that :
document.location.href = $('.myLink').attr('href');
Your href should be a valide url.

Regards,
Dominique VINCENT
http://www.toitl.com/

tankgirlrs

Re: .click event not triggering <a> to new page

12 years ago

Thanks! The URL it was generating was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-QxXynlF4, so it is valid, since i could click on the link with my mouse and it would work, but for some reason the .click() wouldn't. I even tried the ajax

var link = $('.myLink').attr('href');

$.ajax({
  url: link,
  success: function(data) {
    $(window).html(data);
  }
});

but that didn't work... your answer did. I wonder why?

Thanks again.

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