How to "trigger" a click event on a specific anchor element with Javascript? preferably with jQuery -

What I want to do on an anti-element, releases a click event with jQuery preferably, causing the browser to Follows the contact. I know that my anchor selectors are right, because they are 1 coming back.

Here's what I have tried:

  $ ('# awesomeLink') Click ();  

But this link will not follow.

How am I doing this?

Thank you!

Why not parse the URL and send it to the link location to the user?

  var url = $ ('# awesome link'). Attr ('href'); Window.location.href = url;