Dynamically create and "click" a link with jQuery
.click() work with a DOM, not jQuery object
it should be:
$('<a href="mailto:[email protected]"></a>')[0].click();
To make it work with jQuery, you first need to select the DOM element inside the jQuery object.
$('body').append('<a id="link" href="mailto:[email protected]"> </a>');
$('#link')[0].click();
Notice the [0]
fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/fkwhvvhk/
Its not jquery, but it works just fine.
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.href = url;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
Clicking on a link means changing window.location, so how about
window.location = "mailto:[email protected]";