It does not work click on iframe

[silviopy@…]

I tried a piece of code with iframe and I found this:

$("#iframeID").load(function(event){

$(this).contents().find('#myid').click();

});

this does not work, however this if:

$("#iframeID").load(function(event){

iframeName.document.getElementById('myid').click();

});

[gibson042]

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[karger]

I've created an example here: ​http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Scrapelet/Dev/test.html

I can't figure out how to put it into jsfiddle because it involves loading three different pages linked to each other.

To clarify the original bug report: if elt is an anchor element inside an iframe, then invoking the (native) elt.click() method successfully simulates a user click and triggers navigation to the link target (at least on firefox and chrome), but invoking jquery's $(elt).click() does NOT successful navigate to the link target. Tracing jquery's 1.8.3 source code reveals that at line 2955 jquery is carefully choosing *not* to invoke the native click method---I'm not sure why.

[dmethvin]

Duplicate of #12652.
> Tracing jquery's 1.8.3 source code reveals that at line 2955 jquery is carefully choosing *not* to invoke the native click method---I'm not sure why.