On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+trac...@w3.org> wrote: > > ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic > event duplication for links [DOM3 Events] > > http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118 > > Raised by: Doug Schepers > On product: DOM3 Events > > Simon Pieters wrote in > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> : > [[ > Is it defined what should happen in the following case? > > <div onclick="document.links[0].dispatchEvent(event)">click me</div> > <a href="http://example.org/";>test</a> > > It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the event > to be dispatched. > > I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table rows or > <canvas> clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted' event in that > case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to create a new event and > copy over all properties, which is annoying. > ]]
Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no default action. There is, in any case, a simpler solution to the above: <div onclick="document.links[0].click()">click me</div> <a href="http://example.org/";>test</a> -- Ian Hickson
