Simulate anchor click?

[Naoise]

I have a text box and a link in a form. I need the link to be clicked when the return key is hit in the text box. It is quite easy to catch the return key but I don't think I can simulate a click event for the anchor.

I know you can do it for an input button type but I need this to be an anchor tag. Any suggestions?

 

[j4606]

I'm having some trouble understanding yur problem. Perhaps you can explain it better.
I think you may want to try something like

<a href="" onClick="document.myForm.submit()">Submit</a>

I don't know the answer but my good friend Google does.

 

[Naoise]

I don't want a form to be submitted I just want the click event of the anchor text to be simulated.

The larger picture is that I have an asp.net page which detects if the link has been clicked and fires some logic. I have done this before with a button as it has a .click property that can be set to true, is there a workaround for a link?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I doubt very much whether you will find a cross-browser way of simulating a click.

However, you could simply go to the URL specified by the anchor, e.g.:

location = yourAnchorObj.href;

Hope this helps,
Dan



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