title: How to trigger a "click" event on an invisible button in IE9?
body: <p>Because of some very weird authorization problems, my CSS (or something) gets messed up and I can't see my button (&lt;a..&gt; anchor actually). I am using IE9 and don't have the option of using something else. As far as I see JQuery 1.10.2 is loaded.</p>
  <p>I'm not very interested in seeing my button, just in clicking on it, because I don't want to fix the CSS, I just want to access the backend (I'm not the frontend guy in this story).</p>
  <p>My button looks like this:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;a onclick=&quot;js.search()&quot; href=&quot;javascript:void(0)&quot; id=&quot;asdf12345&quot;&gt;Search&lt;img class=&quot;r&quot; src=&quot;im/arrow-gray.gif&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>What I've tried:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>First, I entered the id manually, within the IE9 Developer tools &gt; HTML tab. (the anchor had no id- that's why)</li>
  <li>Tried to invoke the &quot;js.search()&quot; function manually, but <em>js</em> is not defined.</li>
  <li>I tried using the jQuery selector for the precise ID <code>$('#asdf12345').trigger(&quot;click&quot;);</code> but it also doesn't do anything.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>I'm not very experienced in the frontend, for instance I don't know why the &quot;js&quot; object isn't within scope in the console (cuz I can call the <em>alert('asdf');</em> function for instance, so something <em>does</em> work).</p>
  <p>So if anyone is aware of any way in which i can call my backend, simulating a click, that would help a lot!</p>
  <p><strong>[EDIT]</strong>
  After failing to trigger the <em>onClick</em> programatically, taking Alex Shilman's suggestion, I messed around with the CSS - making my fonts smaller made it so that my images fit on the screen, so I could click on them.</p>