Simulate a click on a link with JavaScript

I need to simulate a click on a开发者_运维百科 link using JavaScript. Could anybody tell me how it can be achieved? It should work in FireFox and IE.

Thanks in advance.

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As mentioned by others, you can use click method for IE. For Firefox, have a look at element.dispatchEvent. See the example in the documentation.

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var el = document.getElementById('link');

// Firefox
if (document.createEvent) {
    var event = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
    event.initEvent("click", true, true);
    el.dispatchEvent(event);
}
// IE
else if (el.click) {
    el.click();
}

example

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this should do the trick

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

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document.getElementById('mylink').click()