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Is it possible to make two .click method calls in javascript

Answer 1

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They should both fire a click event. What happens if you remove your ajax requests and other heavy lifting and just put an alert or console.log in each event listener. Oh, and how are you listening to events?

apphacker 2009-05-12 06:22:08

Answer 2

+1 A:

It should work. Try putting a setTimeout call for the second button after the first button is clicked. It's ugly but maybe it will work.

function clickButton() {
 document.getElementById('#button1').click();
 setTimeout(button2, 300);
}

function button2() {
 document.getElementById('#button2').click();
}

rymn 2009-05-12 06:27:32

how about clearing the timeout?

Greco 2009-05-12 06:38:00

fantastic this fixed my immediate problem, thanks again

ChrisHDog 2009-05-12 06:38:31

Welcome. Forgot to mention that you need to clear the timeout.

rymn 2009-05-12 16:04:15

Answer 3

+1 A:

How about using IE's fireEvent() function?

function ClickButtons() {
  document.getElementById("Button1").fireEvent("onclick");
  document.getElementById("Button2").fireEvent("onclick");
}

Working example (tested in IE6):

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Click Test</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <button id="Button1" onclick="alert('Button1 Clicked');">Click 1</button>
    <button id="Button2" onclick="alert('Button2 Clicked');">Click 2/button>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      document.getElementById("Button1").fireEvent("onclick");
      document.getElementById("Button2").fireEvent("onclick");
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Since your use of click() is to my knowledge IE-specific, so is this answer. Events are fired differently in different browsers, but it shouldn't be too tough to make wrappers and hide the difference.

Zack Mulgrew 2009-05-12 06:49:44

+1 this has the same issue as the other one, it appears to be "updatepanel" related ... thanks for the information though

ChrisHDog 2009-05-12 07:06:33

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