HtmlAnchor click() not triggering JavaScript Events

[MichaelHegner]

HtmlAnchor click() is not triggering javascript which is listening to that event.

HtmlAnchor anchor = element.getFirstByXPath("//a[@id='...']");
anchor.click(); // This is not firing events on js side!!!!

Using fireEvent but does the job

HtmlAnchor anchor = element.getFirstByXPath("//a[@id='...']");
anchor.fireEvent("click"); // JS running which listening on click events!

[Deadc00l]

I have a similar issue. After clicking on anchor element, my javascript does not execute this command:

$('#SomeTable tr').find('td:first :checkbox').each(function () {
        if (!$(this).prop('disabled')) {
            $(this).prop('checked', nextCheckboxStatus);
        }
    });

The rest of the function works fine.
Using lates HTMLUnit Version and jQuery 3.5.1 / jQuery UI 1.12.1

[rbri]

sorry for being late on this

First guess:
The click() processes the click only if the element is visible.

Can you please check the log output - if the element is not visible there should be a warning in the log
something like

Calling click() ignored because the target element 'xxxx' is not displayed.

or

Calling click() ignored because the target element 'xxxx' is disabled.

If this is the case then we have two options
use a more advanced version of the click method to ignore the visibility checks

click(final boolean shiftKey, final boolean ctrlKey, final boolean altKey, final boolean triggerMouseEvents, final boolean ignoreVisibility, final boolean disableProcessLabelAfterBubbling)
anchor.click(false, false, false, true, true, false);

or there is a bug in the visibility check. If you think the anchor should be visible, please try

anchor().isDisplayed()

and if you see false here, we have to dig deeper to understand why HtmlUnit (falsy) thinks the anchor is not visble/clickable.

[rbri]

Any findings here?

[MichaelHegner]

Hi, I am sorry, I am not in this project more. It could be, that the Html Element was not visible. From my opinion, triggerEvent("click") and .click() should behave on the same way.

[rbri]

Have added some sentences to the documentation of the click methods.

From my opinion, triggerEvent("click") and .click() should behave on the same way.

From my point of view fireEvent("click") is something total different. This only fires the given event, click does a lot more.

[rbri]

@dennisduysak have you found the time to check the visibility of the element for you case?

[Deadc00l]

will check this today

[rbri]

Any news?

[Deadc00l]

Cant reproduce my issue, sorry.

[rbri]

Ok, will close this. Please open a new one if you have problems.