Generating a Click Event

A slightly more complex case involves a page that does not have embedded Javascript code in their page, but rather is using something like addEventListener() to notice and act upon (e.g.) clicks within the document. In this case the above examples will not work, but we can generate a click event, as if the user had clicked their mouse.

Assume that the el variable points to some element which we want to "click on":

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");

evt.initEvent("click", true, true);

el.dispatchEvent(evt);