jquery-click-event

How to "trigger" a click event on a specific anchor element with Javascript? preferably with jQuery

Hello there, What I want to do is issue a click event, preferably with jQuery, on an anchor element, causing the browser to follow that link. I know that my anchor selectors are correct, as they are returning 1 from .length. Here's what I've tried: $('#awesomeLink').click(); But it won't follow the link. How am I doing it wrong? T...

jQuery click on li with nested ul

I have a list within lists. When a user clicks on a list item (<li>), I want the nested <ul> to show up. Before I started adding the nested lists, I just had it where clicking a list item would run a function. Now, clicking any of the nested lists also runs that function. Which makes sense, since they're part of the list item. Besides ...

jQuery click() event catch-all?

we're showing a box on the screen that I want to hide when the user clicks anywhere on the screen, including body, anchors, divs, buttons, etc... Is there a selector that can handle this for me? Or is it a case of $('body, a, div, input').click()? ...

jQuery focusOut except if

I simply want to hide a div, if a text box loses focus, unless, the user clicks in another certain div. If user clicks that particular div, then the focusout doesn't trigger the div.box being hidden. Below is code with my pseudocode commenting. Any ideas? textInput.focusout(function() { // So long you didn't click div.stop, then ...

jQuery click action does not trigger onclick attribute

I am having problems getting a function that clicks all search matched checkboxes. The click event seems to fire, but no checkbox gets checked nor is myFunc() called. It works perfectly when clicking each checkbox manually, but who wants to do that with 40+ checkboxes - not my users. You may wonder why I use a div-onclick instead of dir...

jQuery bind unbind click event

Hi. I am trying to jQuery to calculate the amount of times a ID has been clicked. for instance if #kwick_1 is clicked once, I want it to load the video 'else' do nothing. And I am looking at applying this throughout the function so the same goes for 2, 3, 4 etc. How would I achieve this? var timesClicked = 0; $('#kwick_1, #kwick_2,...

jQuery script working after the DOM has loaded within a .click event?

Hi, I am trying to find out how to get a jQuery script to work correctly when a click event is started, the script calculates the height of a container (this script appears at the start of the page on load and works 100%) but I am now trying to get it to work inside a .click event. If anyone knows how I should achieve this I would be ve...