[thelist] [Javascript] click() not working with Safari

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 04:34:41 CDT 2005


> Say Html code is:
> <button id="a_button" type="submit" onclick="a_func()">text</button>
> 
> Doing:
> document.getElementById( "submit" ).click();
> will not work, whereas the click event works fine on a <input>
> element.
> 
> Short answer:
> Safari 2.0 doesn't implement Javascript method click() on <button>
> elements.

What is the rationale of click()?

wouldn't a  
document.getElementById( "submit" ).onclick=a_func;
executed onload be cleaner, more supported and easier?
or even a 

<form onsubmit="return a_func();">

Then you don't need to add anything to the HTML at all.
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