How to run link on webpage automatically

Question

I have a page (page 1) that has one link. (Link A) This link when clicked opens a Picture gallery on the same page.

I have another page (page 2) that has another link (Link B) This link opens page 1.

What I want to do is: I want link A to be clicked automatically. Immediately page 1 is opened.

So basically, what happens is once you click Link B a Picture Gallery opens.

Is there any HTML code that makes a link run immediately (automatically) the page is opened?

Thank you!

Can you provide your code or make a jsFiddle with your code. — Sohrab Hejazi, Sep 28 '15 at 22:27
you should be able to trigger a click event on the link on page load using Javascript / JQuery. but we'll need to see some code in order to provide a specific answer. — devlin carnate, Sep 28 '15 at 22:29
`$(document).ready(function() { $(".foo").trigger('click'); });` — Adam Buchanan Smith, Sep 28 '15 at 22:30
to trigger a link-click on page load: `$(document).ready(function() { $("a").trigger('click'); });` where A is yor link. The rest of the question in unclear. — GrafiCode, Sep 28 '15 at 22:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '15 at 22:31

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You can use the window.location methods replace or href

// js redirect
window.location.replace("http://somesite/somepage");

//same clicking on a link
window.location.href = "http://somesite/somepage";

answered Sep 28 '15 at 22:31

Pedro Lobito

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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If i understand, you need to force the click on the link to open the gallery when the page1 is loaded with JavaScript (you can replace the first parameter of the function and get the object of the link with other ways):

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) { 
  eventFire(document.getElementById('myLinkId'), 'click');
});

function eventFire(el, etype){
  if (el.fireEvent) {
    el.fireEvent('on' + etype);
  } else {
    var evObj = document.createEvent('Events');
    evObj.initEvent(etype, true, false);
    el.dispatchEvent(evObj);
  }
}

Source: How to simulate a click with JavaScript?

With JQuery this is a pretty easy:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#myLinkId').click();
});

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Sep 28 '15 at 22:46

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The clicking works. I just removes the Java Script effect and the Gallery doesnt work at all – user4171112 Sep 29 '15 at 00:28
Remove the gallery effect? The gallery effect conflicts with click function? – mucadoo Sep 29 '15 at 01:34

How to run link on webpage automatically

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