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Trigger mouse click on a button each 5 seconds

How to trigger a mouse click on the element (slider "next" button) each X seconds?

I have built a website in Adobe Muse, but the slider widget doesn’t have an auto play function, and I’m trying to make the next button click each 5 seconds to simulate autoplay. I’ve found the class for the button 

<div class="fp-controlArrow fp-next"></div>

maybe there is even a chance to trigger clicking it somehow? Thanks

Solution

  • I had to specify both classes to trigger the button and use a bit more difficult command. This worked:

    var interval = setInterval(function() {

document.querySelector('.fp-controlArrow.fp-next').click();


}, 5000);

    Now I have additional question: is it possible to stop clicking after user will click either back or next button with a mouse?

    As a half-measure I’ve set it to stop at about a time it returns to the first slide but it would be much better to stop it after user clicks any of the button...

    var interval = setInterval(function() {

document.querySelector('.fp-controlArrow.fp-next').click();


}, 7000);

setTimeout(function( ) { clearInterval( interval ); }, 44000);

    Thanks