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

Hi Neil,

The problem with the gmail page is that, there are no <a> hrefs so
that I could take out the target url. All the clickable nodes on the
page are normal span tags.

Another observation that I would like to highlight is, for the texts
on the side bar of gmail (Eg: Compose, Inbox, Sent Items, etc...), I
am able to dispatch the click event, even if they too ar span tags.
But for the text of the actual emails, which again are span tags, i am
not able to do so :(. The difference that i noticed in the two span
tags is, one has an attribute called ROLE = "link" and the other does
not. I read somewhere that ROLE attribute is supposed to be an ARIA
standard. But how does it affect the lower level dispatchEvent on the
DOM??

Am i missing somethin? Thanks a lot for your help...

Regards,
Amit

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Neil Deakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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