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click( )

Triggers the click event of each matched element.
Causes all of the functions that have been bound to that click event to be executed.

Examples:
To trigger the click event on all of the paragraphs on the page:

$("p").click();

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click( fn )

Binds a function to the click event of each matched element.
The click event fires when the pointing device button is clicked over an element. A click is defined as a mousedown and mouseup over the same screen location. The sequence of these events is:
  • mousedown
  • mouseup
  • click
Arguments:
fnFunction
A function to bind to the click event on each of the matched elements. 
function callback(eventObject) {
  this; // dom element
}

Examples:
To hide paragraphs on a page when they are clicked:

    $("p").click(function () { 
      $(this).slideUp(); 
    });
    $("p").hover(function () {
      $(this).addClass("hilite");
    }, function () {
      $(this).removeClass("hilite");
    });



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="../jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    
    $("p").click(function () { 
      $(this).slideUp(); 
    });
    $("p").hover(function () {
      $(this).addClass("hilite");
    }, function () {
      $(this).removeClass("hilite");
    });

  });
  </script>
  <style>
  p { color:red; margin:5px; cursor:pointer; }
  p.hilite { background:yellow; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p>First Paragraph</p>
  <p>Second Paragraph</p>
  <p>Yet one more Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

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