Clicking link from javascript

Hello,

I want to call the click event of the link (anchor tag) on the click of the button. I used this code below in the click event of button to call links click event and it works fine in IE.

document.getElementById(‘linktag’).click();

But, this doesn’t work in Firefox. I googled a bit and found that in firefox, you have to do something more to achieve this behaviour. So, I ended up doing this on button click to work in firefox:

var link=document.getElementById(‘linktag’);
var e = document.createEvent(‘MouseEvents’);
e.initEvent(
‘click’ // event type
,true // can bubble?
,true // cancelable?
);
link.dispatchEvent(e);

The above code does the click on link when I click on the button. But my problem now is that I have defined a link as <a href=”mailto:[email protected]?subject=abc&body=email body”>email </a>

and when click is called and mailto links opens my email client, it somehow ignores the subject and body parameters of the link. It works properly when i actually click a link element. but it doesn’t work when i simulate the click event by code written above. above dispatching event code somehow ignores the link parameters, any idea why?

thanks,

Farooq

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