jQuery trigger click on element with "onclick" attribute

Question

I have an input element with onclick attribute attached to it:

<input id="" type="radio" name="" value="" onclick="SetUniqueRadioButton('rptrDelRates.*grpDelRate', this);">

Everything is working good, but when I decide to trigger click manually on this element using jQuery I get the error below:

Invalid regular expression: /rptrDelRates.*grpDelRate/: Stack overflow

jQuery call:

$('.setup-radio').on('click', function () {
    $(this).find('input').trigger('click');      
    return false;
});

@SumanBogati No, the input is inside an element with the class setup-radio. — Anthony Grist
– Anthony Grist, Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 14:15
We'll need to see the SetUniqueRadioButton function's code. — Anthony Grist
– Anthony Grist, Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 14:16

Milind Anantwar · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-05 14:14:20Z

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you can call the native doms onclick directly:

 $(".setup-radio")[0].onclick();

without jquery:

 document.getElementsByClassName("test_default")[0].onclick();

answered Mar 5, 2014 at 14:14

Milind Anantwar

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That's absolutely amazing answer! Learned something new today and solved the problem. I will mark as accepted answer when I can.

@Morpheus: Glad it helps. It will even work if you remove return false from click handler.

user2735175 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-05 15:45:07Z

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your SetUniqueRadioButton function must add event.stopPropagation();

code may case loop because of bubble

answered Mar 5, 2014 at 15:45

user2735175

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