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POWhy jQuery cannot trigger native click on an anchor tag?
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<p>Recently I found jQuery cannot trigger the native click event on an anchor tag when I'm clicking on other elements, the example below won't work:</p> <p><strong>html</strong></p> <pre><code><a class="js-a1" href="new.html" target="_blank">this is a link</a> <a class="js-a2" href="another.html" target="_blank">this is another link</a> </code></pre> <p><strong>javascript</strong></p> <pre><code>$('.js-a1').click(function () { $('.js-a2').click(); return false; }); </code></pre> <p>And here is the <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Witcher42/f9vkd/">jsfiddle - 1</a>. Click on the first link won't trigger native click on the second one.</p> <p>After some searches, I found a solution and an explanation.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Use the native DOM element.</p> <pre><code>$('.js-a1').click(function () { $('.js-a2').get(0).click(); return false; }); </code></pre> <p>And here is the <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Witcher42/YCeUh/">jsfiddle - 2</a>.</p> <h3>Explanation</h3> <p>I found a post on <em>Learn jQuery</em>: <a href="http://learn.jquery.com/events/triggering-event-handlers/">Triggering Event Handlers</a>. It told me:</p> <blockquote> <p>The .trigger() function cannot be used to mimic native browser events, such as clicking on a file input box or an anchor tag. This is because, there is no event handler attached using jQuery's event system that corresponds to these events.</p> </blockquote> <h3>Question</h3> <p>So here comes my question:</p> <p>How to understand <em>'there is no event handler attached using jQuery's event system that corresponds to these events'</em>?</p> <p>Why is there not such corresponding event handler?</p> <h3>EDIT</h3> <p>I update my jsfiddles, it seems there's and error on the class name.</p>
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