trigger jquery click

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I use jquery to build treeview via ajax which has refreshed automatically every 5 second. And I want after building the tree, one of the branches to be selected automatically. But when I use $('#treeview li span.Running').click();, nothing happens.

I catch the click event using

$('#treeview li span').live('click',function(){
  ....
});

I tried with jQuery instead of $ and it was unsuccessful.

Thank you in advance. BR.

Can you post a bit more code, or ideally an example online? Cheers :) — Town
– Town, Commented Jan 7, 2010 at 10:59
I dont think it is because what you're doing, it should be because when you're doing it, you should do that by traversing to the newly loaded element, in a callback after filetree is fully rendered. Sinan. — Sinan
– Sinan, Commented Jan 7, 2010 at 11:05
I have 3 functions for that initSnmpTreeview(); ajaxBuildSnmpTreeview(); showFirstSnmpNode(); You can see that I initialize the main tree then fill it with branches and the last function is to trigger the click event. — dio
– dio, Commented Jan 7, 2010 at 11:10
I think I do it on the right place, because I can get and print the text of the <span>, but I still can`t trigger the click event. — dio
– dio, Commented Jan 7, 2010 at 12:08

krishna · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-07 10:59:53Z

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You should use the trigger method to trigger an event

 $('#treeview li span.Running').click();

should be:

 $('#treeview li span.Running').trigger('click');

http://docs.jquery.com/Events/trigger

answered Jan 7, 2010 at 10:59

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bobwah · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-07 10:18:31Z

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Have you made sure that $('#treeview li span.Running') is selecting the item that you are hoping it will?

answered Jan 7, 2010 at 10:18

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dio Over a year ago

Yes I am sure. I check it several times. I use $(object).click(); trigger many times and it work fine, but I never use it on dynamically load content, so I think the problem is in the dynamically loaded content.

dio · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-07 12:41:36Z

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My function for catching the event was written after the function for triggering the event. When I move the catching function at the front everything start to work correctly.

answered Jan 7, 2010 at 12:41

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