How would I simulate a click event with setTimeout? Something like:

<script>
    window.onload=setTimeout(document.getElementById('mk1').click(),1000);
</script>

<a id="mk1" href="some url">click me</a>

How would I simulate a click event with setTimeout? Something like:

<script>
    window.onload=setTimeout(document.getElementById('mk1').click(),1000);
</script>

<a id="mk1" href="some url">click me</a>

• javascript
• click
• settimeout

• 1 If you really want to simulate a click, then casablanca has the right answer. If you just want to redirect the page to a different url, then assign a value to window.location – Allen Rice Commented May 17, 2011 at 13:56

2 Answers 2

Currently your code calls click() immediately and passes the return value to setTimeout. You instead want to pass a function reference to setTimeout:

window.onload = function() {
  setTimeout(function() {
    document.getElementById('mk1').click();
  }, 1000);
};

Edit: As @ThiefMaster points out, you also want to pass a function to onload; even though it might seem to work otherwise, it wouldn't do what it really should be doing.

document.getElementById('mk1').click() is evaluating when the script first runs. You need to make it into a function and pass that as the first parameter.