Linkbutton click event not firing via JQUERY

Question

I have a link button on page which is rendered like this in html

<a id="lb_download" href="javascript:__dopostback...">download</a>

I am trying to trigger the click event of that button using JQUERY

$('#lb_download').click();

But its not firing. Direct clicking is working fine with the button. but using JQUERY is not

What I did wrong

Adding little more details I tried a jquery event handler for the click event if firing or not

$('#lb_download').click(function(){
alert(10);
});

The weird part is its working and the alert is showing, but the post back or server side travel is not happening.. which happens when we click directly..

it should work. It depends when you trigger the click. If the click is triggered before the element is rendered then it won't work. See here > https://jsfiddle.net/qhupf6ce/ — Mihai T, Dec 18 '18 at 12:13
I dont know why.. its not firing even when we do $('#lb_download').click() from browser console itself. — Sandeep Thomas, Dec 18 '18 at 12:14
try using `.trigger('click')` . Again, maybe the element is not rendered. Or , maybe you don;t have jQuery enabled. As you can see in the fiddle i shared, it works. Without more context, we cannot help you — Mihai T, Dec 18 '18 at 12:16
Try to reproduce your issue in a snippet code, o link us your web project — SilverSurfer, Dec 18 '18 at 12:16
@MihaiT , SilverSurfer I added little more details into the question.. — Sandeep Thomas, Dec 18 '18 at 12:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 12:54

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Im able to solve the issue using eval as follows since the server side call is not occuring when using click() method of jquery.

eval($('#lb_download').attr('href'));

answered Dec 18 '18 at 12:54

Sandeep Thomas

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 16:42

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try this it worked in my case

document.getElementById('lb_download').click();

answered Dec 18 '18 at 16:42

Shubham

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Linkbutton click event not firing via JQUERY

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