fire click event on a link from another window

Question

so I was able to trigger a click event on a span from another window using:

var openerBody = $(window.opener.document.body);
$('.thespan', openerBody).click();

but then when I change that span object to an <a> tag, the click trigger stops working...

Is there a way to trigger a click event from another window on an <a> tag?

Answer 1

Some browsers won't allow you to call click on an a tag, to prevent you form over-manipulating the user's browser. But you can use the href attribute to redirect the user.

window.location.href = $('.thespan', openerBody).attr('href');