Click On A Button In The Console Doesn't Work

I have a button to change page but when I want to click on it with the console it doesn't work. But with the mouse it works. This is the plunker : http://plnkr.co/edit/shr2xhNHzcYw

Solution 1:

You are using anchors <a> and not button <button>.

To fire click on <a> you need to use the DOM element, jQuery object $() does not work.

Use,

$('#language_us')[0].click();

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.trigger() or .click() triggers a click handler defined explicitly. You need the native click event which is the default functionality of an anchor. So you need to use HTMLElement Object.

If you would have wrote :

$('#language_fr').click(function(){
  alert('..')
})

The

$('#language_fr').click()

would have fired the alert().

Solution 2:

Try this:

$('#language_us').trigger('click');
$('#language_fr').trigger('click');

Or may be try:

$('#language_us').get(0).click();
$('#language_fr').get(0).click();

Solution 3:

Maybe try to change the tag from a to button or put a button tag inside the a tag and press that.