setTimeout not working in Firefox

Question

This is working in Chrome, but not IE or Firefox. Could someone help please? Thanks

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.location.hash === "#Location") {

      setTimeout(function() {
        $("#Location").trigger('click');
    },5);         

  } else {

  }
</script>

What is the object with ID="Location" ? – mplungjan Oct 12 '15 at 09:22 — mplungjan, Oct 12 '15 at 09:22
@sierra.charli3 http://stackoverflow.com/a/7338527/5188835 – Cheezy Code Oct 12 '15 at 09:29 — Cheezy Code, Oct 12 '15 at 09:29
did you checked your if is working or not? – Bik Oct 12 '15 at 09:39 — Bik, Oct 12 '15 at 09:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '15 at 09:34

The problem is that your page is not already charged and the click event triggered is lost. On my firefox with jquery loaded this code work properly:

<body>
    <button id="location">toclick</button>
    <script type="text/javascript">

        setTimeout(function() {
            $("#location").trigger('click');
        },100);
        $('#location').click(function(){ console.log('click') });
    </script>
 </body>

Or if you want you can put your script inside the ready() function to wait that the page is loaded completly:

$( document ).ready(function() {
    //code
});

setTimeout not working in Firefox

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