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Simulate mouse click?

Hi,

Is it possible to fire a mousedown event via javascript? For example, I made an element which has a mousedown handler. When clicked, it just pops up an alert:

element.mousedown = function(evt) {
alert("you clicked me!");
}

I've positioned this div absolutely at 20, 20, and it is 100 pixels wide/high.

I'd like to now programatically call "mousedown" at a position of 40,40, so that should intersect my element, and its handler should be called:

magic.simulateMouseDown(40, 40);

is that possible to do in javascript?

Thanks

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Gurvinder Pal Singh

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Gurvinder Pal Singh

same thing for button, just replace the link id by button id

SleepinDevil

But the author needs to trigger a mouse click event on X and Y coordinates, instead of just triggering a click() on an html element with Javascript....

DJ AM Juicebox I dont think this is possible with Javascript

Gurvinder Pal Singh

why not at mousemove event, you can get the mouse coordinates and then you can check for specific coordinates so that you can invoke click handler.
http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/capturemouseposition1.html

DJ_AM_Juicebox

ASKER

Wait is this method not correct for me?:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Event.initMouseEvent

Yes, I need to trigger the mouse event at a particular coordinate (it's going to be within an SVG element, so I can borrow its native hit-testing abilities).

Thanks

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Gurvinder Pal Singh

which all browsers you want your application to support?

Please check if the same thing works on other browsers like IE etc.

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