angular2 manually firing click event on particular element

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Angular4

Instead of

    this.renderer.invokeElementMethod(
        this.fileInput.nativeElement, 'dispatchEvent', [event]);

use

    this.fileInput.nativeElement.dispatchEvent(event);

because invokeElementMethod won’t be part of the renderer anymore.

Angular2

Use ViewChild with a template variable to get a reference to the file input, then use the Renderer to invoke dispatchEvent to fire the event:

import { Component, Renderer, ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
  ...
  template: `
...
<input #fileInput type="file" id="imgFile" (click)="onChange($event)" >
...`
})
class MyComponent {
  @ViewChild('fileInput') fileInput:ElementRef;

  constructor(private renderer:Renderer) {}

  showImageBrowseDlg() {
    // from http://stackoverflow.com/a/32010791/217408
    let event = new MouseEvent('click', {bubbles: true});
    this.renderer.invokeElementMethod(
        this.fileInput.nativeElement, 'dispatchEvent', [event]);
  }
}

Update

Since direct DOM access isn’t discouraged anymore by the Angular team this simpler code can be used as well

this.fileInput.nativeElement.click()

See also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/dispatchEvent

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