Re: Simulating clicks on the DOM node of the GMAIL page.

Amit Saurav wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers... :)
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> Consider the situation:
> <span>
>    <a>
>       To click
>    </a>
> </span>
> 
> Whenever I call the dispatchEvent on the <a> tag, my click is
> simulated as expected. But when i call the dispatchEvent on the <span>
> tag, the link is not followed. 

If you are trying to just open the link's url, you should just set 
document.location = link.href

Does the dispatchEvent depend upon the
> type of DOM node? That is, can the click event be simulated only on
> elemnts which are actually clickable by default (like <a> etc)? Cant
> it be simulated on "any" element in the DOM?

dispatchEvent will work on any element and will dispatch a DOM event to 
the element you targeted. It won't activate the link though since you 
didn't target it.