how to trigger click button?

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I have this click button code

    \$("#extractmonkeys").click(function () {
        \$("#grapharea").html(" ");
        \$("#paramselection").html(" ");

How can I trigger this code from somewhere else?

     \$("#extractmonkeys").trigger("click");

Am i missing something?

please note: \$ is because i'm coding jquery inside perl ...

What is the exact problem? Do you know that the click event handler isn't closed? (Or did you forget to copy&paste the whole block?) — Sebastian
– Sebastian, Commented Jan 14, 2011 at 13:45

Ivo · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-14 13:46:05Z

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function myFunction(){

$("#grapharea").html(" "); $("#paramselection").html(" ");

}

$("#extractmonkeys").click(function () {

myFunction();

}

this way you can call your function from everywere

answered Jan 14, 2011 at 13:46

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SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-14 13:45:06Z

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That code should work fine.
You can also call $(...).click().

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David Tang · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-14 13:47:10Z

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You're missing }); from the end of:

\$("#extractmonkeys").click(function () {
    \$("#grapharea").html(" ");
    \$("#paramselection").html(" ");

Otherwise, your \$("#extractmonkeys").trigger("click"); will work.

It could also be possible that the above code is not inside a document.ready:

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

In which case "#extractmonkeys" cannot be found and thus nothing happens.

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Aliostad · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-14 13:48:10Z

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To find out what's wrong

Check the source of the web page to make sure your code is there
Check the resources with fiddler, ... to make sure your jQuery script is loaded and has not got 404
Use javascript console in Chrome, etc to call that function and make sure it can be called
put an alert in your function. Perhaps it is being called but does not produce the result you want.

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