jquery - How to trigger click event on href element

Question

I'm trying to trigger click event on hyperlink with jQuery like the way below. Hyperlink does not have any id but it does have css class:

$(document).ready(function () {  
  $('.cssbuttongo').trigger('click'); 
}); 

The function above is not working. This is the hyperlink:

<a href="hyperlinkurl" class="cssbuttongo">hyperlink anchor</a>

Answer 1

The native DOM method does the right thing:

$('.cssbuttongo')[0].click();
                  ^
              Important!

This works regardless of whether the href is a URL, a fragment (e.g. #blah) or even a javascript:.

Note that this calls the DOM click method instead of the jQuery click method (which is very incomplete and completely ignores href).