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    <p>Basically I'm trying to dispatch a custom made mouse click event to a text input element using the following code (see this <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/epevj/10/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jsFiddle</a>):</p> <pre><code>function simulateClick(id) { var clickEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvents"); clickEvent.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null); var element = document.getElementById(id); element.dispatchEvent(clickEvent); } </code></pre> <p>When I run that code on a <code>type="checkbox"</code> element it works perfectly fine but it doesn't work at all when called on a <code>type="text"</code> element.</p> <p>Now here's the definition of <code>initMouseEvent()</code> on MDN:</p> <pre><code>event.initMouseEvent(type, canBubble, cancelable, view, detail, screenX, screenY, clientX, clientY, ctrlKey, altKey, shiftKey, metaKey, button, relatedTarget); </code></pre> <p>So in the above example <code>screenX, screenY, clientX</code> and <code>clientY</code> would all be <code>0</code> (still, the above code works perfectly fine with checkboxes regardless of their position). I tried capturing a real event and passing the screen and client coordinates to the cusom made event, to no avail.</p> <p>I though maybe text input elements ignore custom mouse events due to security reasons, but then <code>element.focus()</code> should't work either, which it does.</p> <p>Any ideas or insights would be greatly appreciated!</p>
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    1. COIf i was you i'd consider using the jQuery library and then the `trigger`method - it works great cross browser, and will make your life a lot easier :)
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    2. COHow are you determinating, the the click isn't working? When I add an `onclick` handler to your example it gets triggered: http://jsfiddle.net/epevj/11/ Are you expecting to get focus? Then why aren't you using `focus()`?
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