How to invoke mousemove with Javascript or jQuery code

Question

I know if you move mouse, that event will invoke however how can I invoke that event just with help of the code?

JavaScript's [`document.createEvent`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/document.createEvent) (example with mouse event included) and jQuery's [`trigger`](http://api.jquery.com/trigger/) — Rob W, Sep 05 '12 at 19:34
As Rob says to fake the event, but as Roko says - it will not actually move the cursor, that is not available in browsers. — Orbling, Sep 05 '12 at 19:37
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/906486/how-can-i-programmatically-invoke-an-onclick-event-from-a-anchor-tag-while-kee This should probably help you, it has been asked before. — fonZ, Sep 05 '12 at 19:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 19:36

AFAIK you cannot move the user's mouse pointer if that was the question.
It would be called "mousejacking" ;)

Not sure why you ask, but,
if your goal is to simulate a click on another element you could do:

$('#element_1').click(function(){
    $('#element_2').click();
});

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 19:40

If you have a jQuery element from which you want to fire an event you need the trigger method

var $t = jQuery('#idToElement');
$t.trigger('mousemove',['parameter1','parameter2']);

If you want to do this with pure javascript you need the createEvent function of the document object. You can find more about that here

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 12 '17 at 19:50

1

Trigger event in jQuery can help you so much

edited Feb 12 '17 at 19:50

marc_s

answered Sep 17 '12 at 18:32

john

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