How to programmatically click an element with MooTools?

Question

In jQuery, I've done stuff like this in the past:

$('#someCheckbox').click();

And everything works as if the user just clicked on the element normally. However the same doesn't work in MooTools:

$('someCheckbox').fireEvent('click');

The checkbox doesn't get checked, nor do any of the bound event handlers fire.

Is there a way to do this? I need the already bound "click" event handlers to fire, so just setting it's "checked" attribute isn't an option.

Answer 1

The click event should fire when fireEvent('click') is called. See http://mootools.net/shell/8bbgn/ for a demo I just set up.

The checkbox doesn't get checked, as expected. To do this, you must set the checked property to true:

$('someCheckbox').setProperty('checked', true);