I am trying to figure out how to make an anchor link clicked when the website is visited. I would be grateful if someone can help me, here's a demo code, you can match the id for my ease thank you.
<body>
<a id='deepakkamat' href=''> This is my webpage </a>
</body>
So i want to know any JavaScript code to make the link clicked when the page loads. Thank you in advance.
I am trying to figure out how to make an anchor link clicked when the website is visited. I would be grateful if someone can help me, here's a demo code, you can match the id for my ease thank you.
<body>
<a id='deepakkamat' href='http://mywebpage.'> This is my webpage </a>
</body>
So i want to know any JavaScript code to make the link clicked when the page loads. Thank you in advance.
Share Improve this question asked May 30, 2012 at 13:14 Deepak KamatDeepak Kamat 1,9805 gold badges24 silver badges41 bronze badges3 Answers
Reset to default 3Use the meta tag to redirect to another page when the page loads:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.example./" />
Where 2 is the number of seconds before the redirect occurs.
This will be more reliable and more straightforward than writing JavaScript to click a link. Let me know how it works for you.
The jquery answer:
$($('#deepakkamat').click());
This will actually register a click event as the cause, but it seems awfully unnecessary. The meta method is the preferred method.
When you're trying to archive a redirect, use document.location.href = "http://mywebpage." (or the meta tag mentioned before).
There is also a click method available, so that you can run
document.getElementById("deepakkamat").click();