Why is this jquery in visualforce not working?

Question

This code is in visualforce (salesforce's page editor language). Basically the apex:repeat tags function as a sort of loop, generating a set of urls from outputlink. All these urls have a class of "name".

What the jquery is to do is find all the urls with the class name, and click them so they open in new windows. Its not working.

<apex:page standardcontroller="Account" extensions="maininvoice">

<apex:repeat value="{!theListOfIDs}" var="anId">
     <apex:outputLink target="_blank" value="{!URLFOR($Page.invoice2,anId)}" styleClass="name" />
</apex:repeat>

<apex:includeScript value="{!URLFOR($Resource.jquery, 'js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js')}"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
var j$ = jQuery.noConflict();
j$(document).ready(function(){

$('.name').click();
alert("debug");
                }
                );

</script>

</apex:page>

Answer 1

A .click() won't cause the default behavior to occur (e.g. following the link/opening a window), if you want that to happen, you'll have to call window.open() yourself, like this:

var j$ = jQuery.noConflict();
j$(function(){
  $('.name').each(function() {
    window.open(this.href);
  });
  alert("debug");
});

Note though, most browsers will block you from doing this, not sure what to recommend there, and I'd personally dislike opening windows on page load as well.