Good question. I thought it was simple but after testing and searching it seems it is not possible to do this in a simple way.

First I thought - why not just fire the onclick instead of click?
But onclick is not a function either until it has been written explicitly in the html.
So what about setting onclick="return true"?
This would normally activate the hyperlink (whereas onclick="return false" would disable it...)
But it still doesn't do anything in Firefox.

Running out of ideas, the 'best' thing could be to add this to the A element:

<a href="..." onclick="location.href=this.href">

and then firing the onclick event instead of click().

Problems with this method:
1. It wont work If the href starts with "javascript:..." or "mailto:..." etc.
2. It wont pay respect to any TARGET attribute

These things could of course be tackled by a clever script, which I am sure someone has already written, but actually I would prefer many other things before such a script - for instance to add a submit button or similar, which would work as expected when invoking the click event.

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thanks, jgivoni for your response and sorry for not getting back quicker.
your proposed solution sounds like a good way to do it.
thanks for the help