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Firing DOM mouse events programmatically from JavaScript

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Whilst you can inject events into browsers' event-handling systems (in not entirely portable ways), it will only cause event handlers registered on those events to be called. It won't cause default actions like following clicked links. Also you don't get the target element worked out for you from co-ordinates so you'd have to do that yourself.

A better bet would be to lose the obscuring <div> and register a click handler on the iframe's document, which then informs code in the parent of the location of the click.

bobince 2010-08-24 12:05:22

...unless the iframe *src* is a different domain, in which case you're out of luck :-)

Andy E 2010-08-24 12:14:39

Added a note about being in the same domain.

Eemeli Kantola 2010-08-24 12:41:42

Alright, so the best solution was to register an onclick handler for the iframe content's `document.body`. Thanks for the tip!

Eemeli Kantola 2010-08-25 18:52:27

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