Why this html anchor tag is not auto clicking Javascript link?

Question

Here is the html of anchor tag:

<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="myid">JavaScript Link Code</a>

And this is the Javascript function's statement (not Javascript link code) which I am using

simulate(document.getElementById("myid"), "click");

Please help me. I want to auto click 'Javascript Link Code' between <a> </a> when page loads.

did you search for this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722863/how-to-click-a-link-from-javascript http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10826458/auto-click-an-anchor-link-on-the-page-when-the-page-is-visited — paka, Jun 30 '13 at 15:33
But the anchor just has a `void(0)` statement, so it's not going to do anything anyway... — nnnnnn, Jun 30 '13 at 15:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 30 '13 at 15:34

If you want to call a function on load, there is a simple way.

window.onload = function() {
  someCode();  // call here whatever JavaScript Code you want on load
};

Why try to 'simulate' a click only to call its function?

You can get and execute the code like this

var code = document.getElementById('myid').textContent;
eval(code);

But it's not wise to execute code like this.

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