锚点击功能在 Firefox 中不起作用

Question

This code:

a = document.createElement('a')
a.setAttribute('href','http://www.google.de')
a.click()

works in chrome. It open www.google.de as expected. But in firefox it does nothing. Why and how can it be made to work?

I am using firefox 40.0.3 on ubuntu linux 15.04.

Answer 1

Use the following:

var a = document.createElement('a')
a.setAttribute('href','http://www.google.de');
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(a);
a.click();

Answer 2

Firefox probably doesn't open the link because you never add it to the DOM.

You could add the element to the DOM and use css display:none to hide it from the page.

However, a more standard approach would be to either use the javascript window.open() method or window.location.href depending on your desired behavior.