Simulating a click in jQuery/JavaScript on a link

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You can use the the click function to trigger the click event on the selected element.

Example:

$( 'selector for your link' ).click ();

You can learn about various selectors in jQuery’s documentation.

EDIT: like the commenters below have said; this only works on events attached with jQuery, inline or in the style of “element.onclick”. It does not work with addEventListener, and it will not follow the link if no event handlers are defined.
You could solve this with something like this:

var linkEl = $( 'link selector' );
if ( linkEl.attr ( 'onclick' ) === undefined ) {
    document.location = linkEl.attr ( 'href' );
} else {
    linkEl.click ();
}

Don’t know about addEventListener though.

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