Automatic click link/button

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I'm trying to automate clicking a link, but it seems IE/Firefox only runs the onclick event handlers, but doesn't actually follow the href. Opera and Safari do both, which is what I'm after.

Here's a test page with code:

<[COLOR=#0000FF]!DOCTYPE[/color] [COLOR=#0000FF]html[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]PUBLIC[/color] [COLOR=#808080]"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"[/color] [COLOR=#808080]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"[/URL][/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]html[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]xmlns[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL][/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]head[/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]title[/color]>test</[COLOR=#0000FF]title[/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]script[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]type[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"text/javascript"[/color]>
[COLOR=#006600]<!--[/color]
[COLOR=#0000FF]function[/color] clickElement(elementid){
	[COLOR=#FF0000]var[/color] e = document.getElementById(elementid);
	[COLOR=#0000FF]if[/color] ([COLOR=#FF0000]typeof[/color] e == [COLOR=#808080]'object'[/color]) {
		[COLOR=#006600]/*if(typeof e.click != 'undefined') {
			e.click();
			alert('click');
			return false;
		}
		else */[/color]
		[COLOR=#0000FF]if[/color](document.createEvent) {
			[COLOR=#FF0000]var[/color] evObj = document.createEvent([COLOR=#808080]'MouseEvents'[/color]);
			evObj.initEvent([COLOR=#808080]'click'[/color],[COLOR=#0000FF]true[/color],[COLOR=#0000FF]true[/color]);
			e.dispatchEvent(evObj);
			alert([COLOR=#808080]'createEvent'[/color]);
			[COLOR=#0000FF]return[/color] [COLOR=#0000FF]false[/color];
		}
		[COLOR=#0000FF]else[/color] [COLOR=#0000FF]if[/color](document.createEventObject) {
			e.fireEvent([COLOR=#808080]'onclick'[/color]);
			alert([COLOR=#808080]'createEventObject'[/color]);
			[COLOR=#0000FF]return[/color] [COLOR=#0000FF]false[/color];
		}
		[COLOR=#0000FF]else[/color] {
			e.click();
			alert([COLOR=#808080]'click'[/color]);
			[COLOR=#0000FF]return[/color] [COLOR=#0000FF]false[/color];
		}
	}
}
[COLOR=#006600]//-->[/color]
</[COLOR=#0000FF]script[/color]>
</[COLOR=#0000FF]head[/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]body[/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]p[/color]><[COLOR=#0000FF]a[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]id[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"foo"[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]href[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"javascript:alert('href')"[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]onclick[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"alert('onclick')"[/color]>programatically click me</[COLOR=#0000FF]a[/color]></[COLOR=#0000FF]p[/color]>
<[COLOR=#0000FF]p[/color]><[COLOR=#0000FF]a[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]href[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"#"[/color] [COLOR=#FF0000]onclick[/color]=[COLOR=#808080]"clickElement('foo')"[/color]>click me for real</[COLOR=#0000FF]a[/color]></[COLOR=#0000FF]p[/color]>
</[COLOR=#0000FF]body[/color]>
</[COLOR=#0000FF]html[/color]>

IE (versions 6 & 7) and Firefox (version 2) don't pop up "href" like Opera and Safari do. Uncommenting that first chunk uses the old click() method, which still exists in IE, but not Firefox. Does anyone have any suggestions how this might be possible?

- Andrew
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