Tested your code. It worked in both Firefox 3 and IE7.
On Nov 23, 8:10 pm, Lorenzo Gil Sanchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imagine this code:
>
> $("a").click(function () { alert("hello world"); return false; });
>
> $("button").click(function () { $("a").click(); });
>
> I would expect that clicking on the button would trigger the click
> event on the links element, but it is not the case because of the
> following code in jQuery:
>
> // Handle triggering native .onfoo handlers (and on
> links since we
> don't call .click() for links)
> if ( (!fn || (jQuery.nodeName(elem, 'a') && type ==
> "click")) &&
> elem["on"+type] && elem["on"+type].apply( elem, data ) === false )
> val = false;
>
> // some code in between these blocks
>
> // Trigger the native events (except for clicks on
> links)
> if ( fn && donative !== false && val !== false &&
> !(jQuery.nodeName
> (elem, 'a') && type == "click") ) {
> this.triggered = true;
> try {
> elem[ type ]();
> // prevent IE from throwing an error for some
> hidden elements
> } catch (e) {}
> }
>
> It is around line 2019 in jquery-1.2.6.js (the trigger function).
>
> So my question is: why jQuery makes an exception with the <a>
> elements? At least it should mention this in the docs. I spent quite
> some time until I found this.
>
> Best regards
