click link with javascript

I have a link on my page that id like to click with the below 开发者_StackOverflow社区javascript function, but it isnt working. What I am really trying to do is use php to echo out a preclicked link. I think I have used the right function $(selector).click(), but I dont know where to put the link. I dont want to echo out the link, just the alert message. The link is actually a thickbox alert message, that is only able to be clicked on. I was hoping that i could use the .click() to activate it via php. thanks

<?php
echo "
<script type='text/javascript'>$('#link').click();</script>
<a href='wronginput.php?height=40&width=80' id='link' class='thickbox'>Link text</a>";
?>

At the time you output the javascript snippet, the link has not yet been parsed into the DOM, so $('#link') returns a null object. Either wrap it in a .ready() call, or place the javascript AFTER the link in your output.

<script>$(document).ready( function() { $('#link').click(); });</script>
<a href=...>

or

<a href=...>
<script...>

as Marc B said

<?php
echo "<a href='wronginput.php?height=40&width=80' id='link' class='thickbox'>Link text</a>
<script type='text/javascript'>$('#link').click();</script>
";
?>

or

<?php
echo "<script>$(document).ready( function() { $('#link').click(); });</script>
<a href='wronginput.php?height=40&width=80' id='link' class='thickbox'>Link text</a>   
";
?>