How do I trigger the onclick event handler in an anchor tag using jquery

Question

I have an anchor tag with an onlick attribute containing some javascript code. I need to get this javascript executed using jquery or javascript. I have tried to call the click event on the anchor tag element but nothing happens. Clicking the anchor tag manually on the site works just fine but I cannot get it to work thru jquery.

/Måns

Answer 1

Without example code I don't see any reason why something like this wouldn't work:

$('#some-link').click();

A possibly unsafe alternative would be...

var oc = $('#some-link').attr('onclick');
eval(oc);