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Trying to simulate a click on a link

I tried:   $("a #RtMgn_DomRatePlan")[0].click() ;, but got VM87:558 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'click' of undefined.

Also tried:
var a = $("a #RtMgn_DomRatePlan")[0] ;
simulate_link_click(a) ;

with

function simulate_link_click(element)
{ 
  var e = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
  e.initEvent( 'click', true, true );
  element.dispatchEvent(e);
}

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And other options / variations.

Seems links are not jQuery triggerable events, but it can be in the DOM??????

I just want to avoid trying to pull a bunch of data out of the link's data- elements and the coding that led up to a hairy ajax call.

Thank you.
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Thanks Kim.  Yes, your last assumption was correct, a link with that tag.

It didn't seem to work, but it turns out that I need to go at it a different way anyway.
The link ultimately would do an ajax to mysql based on what the operator earlier used to navigate to that page, but s/he may have done other form manipulations in between, so I actually need to, (on this cancelling event of some other activity), get the last values stored in hidden fields, not what was used to initially populate the form.

Thanks!