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

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:30:08 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
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Amit Saurav wrote:
> 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.

Following the link is done by a click handler on the <a>.  If the event is fired 
on some ancestor of the <a>, the <a> will never see it.

-Boris