I have a hyperlink in my jsp. When we click on this, a popup overlay gets displayed and the background greys out. After closing the popup, the background bees normal. Now I want the hyperlink to be clicked automatically when the page loads. Can anyone say how we can do that?

I tried the following..

$('#ViewOutages').click(); , 
$('#ViewOutages').click();

but none of it worked.. ViewOutages is the div id in which the hyperlink is present.

Can someone please help on this.

I have a hyperlink in my jsp. When we click on this, a popup overlay gets displayed and the background greys out. After closing the popup, the background bees normal. Now I want the hyperlink to be clicked automatically when the page loads. Can anyone say how we can do that?

I tried the following..

$('#ViewOutages').click(); , 
$('#ViewOutages').click();

but none of it worked.. ViewOutages is the div id in which the hyperlink is present.

Can someone please help on this.

• javascript
• jquery
• jsp

• Do you want a link to be clicked specifically or a popup to be shown? – zerkms Commented May 22, 2013 at 4:48
• 1 $('#ViewOutages').find('#linkID').click(); – palaѕн Commented May 22, 2013 at 4:48

5 Answers 5

window.onload=function(){
 if(document.getElementById('test')!=null||document.getElementById('test')!=""){ 
 document.getElementById('test').click();
 }
}

This actually worked.. :)

Here you go:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#ViewOutages").trigger('click');
}

use trigger()

$(function(){
    $('#ViewOutages').trigger('click');
})

from

'ViewOutages' is the div id in which the hyperlink is present.

looks like your <a> is inside the div ..i assume you need to use find() or children()

$(function(){
  $('#ViewOutages').find('#linkID').trigger('click');
 })

Try this,

$(function(){
    $('#ViewOutages').find('a').trigger('click');
    // if hyperlink is in div#ViewOutages as you said in question
})

You can use $(document).ready(); function which is same as