How to simulate double click in Firefox or Internet Explorer

Question

Are there any plugins out there that will simulate a double click in any of the major browsers?

I'm trying to test some code that prevents double clicks on form submission buttons, and would love to be able to either use a hot key or the middle mouse button to send a double click to the browser.

Thanks Don

Answer 1

what i would do is this:

<input id="btn" type="submit" onclick="disableDblClick('btn')"/>

<script type="text/javascript">
function disableDblClick(obj)
{
    document.getElementById(obj).disabled = true;
    setTimeout("document.getElementById('btn').disabled = false", 100);
}

what this does is disable the button for 100 milliseconds. i didnt test this, but it should work, and it will be cross browser. and change the amount of time appropriately.

Answer 2

Is this for manual testing? If so, you could use a Microsoft Mouse and IntelliPoint. This would let you configure the mouse wheel click to be double click. I'm sure there are other mouse vendors who do similar things.

Answer 3

Observation: You're not really testing double-clicks. You're testing "more than one click". You'd still want the form submission button to be disabled even if the temporal distance between the two clicks was 5 seconds, wouldn't you?

So I think you've solved your own problem: just click twice!

Answer 4

I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things about Selenium, a set of tools for testing websites. I imagine you can script a test that clicks twice with no delay.