If the anchor you want to fire is inside the div and is the only
anchor in the div then maybe this might work.
$('div.test').click (function ()
{
alert ('div.test clicked');
$('a', this).trigger ('click');
});
On Aug 22, 2:53 am, John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <html><head>
> <script language=javascript src="jquery-1.1.3.1.js"></script>
> <script language=javascript>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("div.test").click(function(){
> alert('div.test clicked');
> $("a").click();
> });});
>
> </script></head><body>
> <a href="http://google.com";> google </a>
> <div class='test'>click</div>
> </body></html>
>
> I have a situation where if anyone clicks anywhere within the div, I
> want the anchor to be fired - in this case, navigate to google.com.
> Why doesn't the above code work?
>
> thanks in advance.
> jliu
