Fake “click” to activate an onclick method

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Once you have selected an element you can call click()

document.getElementById('link').click();

see: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Element.click

I don’t remember if this works on IE, but it should. I don’t have a windows machine nearby.

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