In jQuery, I've done stuff like this in the past:

$('#someCheckbox').click();

And everything works as if the user just clicked on the element normally. However the same doesn't work in MooTools:

$('someCheckbox').fireEvent('click');

The checkbox doesn't get checked, nor do any of the bound event handlers fire.

Is there a way to do this? I need the already bound "click" event handlers to fire, so just setting it's "checked" attribute isn't an option.

In jQuery, I've done stuff like this in the past:

$('#someCheckbox').click();

And everything works as if the user just clicked on the element normally. However the same doesn't work in MooTools:

$('someCheckbox').fireEvent('click');

The checkbox doesn't get checked, nor do any of the bound event handlers fire.

Is there a way to do this? I need the already bound "click" event handlers to fire, so just setting it's "checked" attribute isn't an option.

• javascript
• dom
• dom-events
• mootools
• mootools-events

• does $('someCheckbox').onclick() work? – Jack Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 21:45
• Firefox says: element.onclick is not a function – adamJLev Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 21:57

1 Answer 1

The click event should fire when fireEvent('click') is called. See http://mootools/shell/8bbgn/ for a demo I just set up.

The checkbox doesn't get checked, as expected. To do this, you must set the checked property to true:

$('someCheckbox').setProperty('checked', true);