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

Hello Martjin,

Almost all the text on the gmail inbox page are clickable and cause
some action on the page. For example, the emails, are also <span>
texts but when clicked by a user, the corresponding mails open. All
these do not have any <a> tags. And i simply want to simulate this
process of clicking all these "pseudo" links on the gmail page,
programatically thro my extension.

Am i doin somethin wrong or missing somethin?

Thanks a lot for your help...

Regards,
Amit

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Martijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/27/08, Amit Saurav <[email protected]> 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. 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?
>
>  Amit, the span is outside of the link, so that's why the link is not
>  followed, if the span would be inside of the link, the link would be
>  followed.
>
>  Regards,
>  Martijn
>
>
>
>  >  Thanks once again...
>  >
>  >  -Amit
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >  > Amit Saurav wrote:
>  >  > > Yes, i tried using the initMouseEvent() and dispatchEvent() calls on
>  >  > > the exact DOM elements, but that too doesn't seem to work.
>  >  >
>  >  > Doesn't seem to work how, exactly?
>  >  >
>  >  > I'd recommend giving http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html a
>  >  > read....
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > -Boris
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