Could you share a live sample page? If you don't have a place to host one, jsbin.com:
http://jsbin.com/ That will allows us to see what you're seeing quite easily. - Richard On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, T.J. <theimmortal...@gmail.com> wrote: > For further clarification, the way I'm calling that is as follows: > > for (var x = 1; x <= count; x++) { > $("#button").triggerHandler("click"); > } > > which is inside of a function that I call on page load, and it isn't > working at all. > > Thanks, > T.J. > > On Dec 8, 1:32 pm, "T.J." <theimmortal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a click event bound to a button that I'm needing to call > > without any user interaction on the button. I'm using the fragment > > portion of the URL to determine how many times the button's "click" > > function needs to fire and using a for loop to (attempt to, at least) > > trigger the click. I've tried this with .click(), .trigger("click"), > > and .triggerHandler("click") but with no success. I could write a > > JavaScript function and call that within the loop, but that's > > unnecessary code.. > > > > Is what I'm doing valid, or can the .trigger/.triggerHandler methods > > not be called from within a loop? The syntax I'm using is as follows: > > > > $("#button").triggerHandler("click"); > > > > Thanks, > > T.J. >