User click working, Jquery click not working

Question

I am creating a script that automatically clicks the "accept request" button on a social media site. To execute it I use tampermonkey.

$( document ).ready(function() {

    addFriend();

});

function addFriend(){

    $(".acceptRequest").each(function(){

        var button = this;

            setTimeout(function(){
                button.click();
            },1);

    });

}

When this runs I get the

Uncaught ReferenceError:

however when clicking the button myself it obviously is working.

So what is the diffrence between clicking it myself and letting jquery click it?

EDIT: The exact error is this:

Uncaught ReferenceError: manageRequest is not defined
    at HTMLButtonElement.onclick (requests:2107)
    at Object.trigger (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:5)
    at HTMLButtonElement.eval (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:5)
    at Function.each (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:5)
    at w.fn.init.each (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:5)
    at w.fn.init.trigger (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:5)
    at eval (userscript.html?id=2ad30bde-066c-4303-83a2-eae54846284e:45)

And this is the button I'm trying to click:

<button type="button" class="acceptRequest" onclick="manageRequest(bunch of userinformation here)"><span>accept</span></button>

What exactly is the ReferenceError? – CertainPerformance Dec 08 '18 at 21:33 — CertainPerformance, Dec 08 '18 at 21:33
What type of element is `.acceptRequest`? – Barmar Dec 08 '18 at 21:36 — Barmar, Dec 08 '18 at 21:36

Alain Cruz · Answer 1 · 2018-12-08T22:13:48.850

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Don't use click, instead use trigger, which execute handlers attached to the matched element for a given event type. So, your code would look like the one below.

setTimeout(function(){
    $(button).trigger( "click" );
},1);

You can learn more about jQuery's trigger() in here.

edited Dec 08 '18 at 22:13

answered Dec 08 '18 at 21:43

Alain Cruz

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