How to simulate a click with JavaScript?

Question

I'm just wondering how I can use JavaScript to simulate a click on an element.

Currently I have:

function simulateClick(control) {
  if (document.all) {
    control.click();
  } else {
    var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
    evObj.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, window, 1, 12, 345, 7, 220, false, false, true, false, 0, null );
    control.dispatchEvent(evObj);
  }
}

<a href="http://www.google.com" id="mytest1">test 1</a><br>

<script type="text/javascript">
    simulateClick(document.getElementById('mytest1'));
</script>

But it's not working :(

Any ideas?

Answer 1

What about something simple like:

document.getElementById('elementID').click();

Supported even by IE.