trigger jquery click

I use jquery to build treeview via ajax which has refreshed automatically every 5 second. And I want after building the tree, one of the branches to be selected automatically. But when I use $('#treeview li span.Running').click();, nothing happens.

I catch the click event using

$('#treev开发者_如何学运维iew li span').live('click',function(){
  ....
});

I tried with jQuery instead of $ and it was unsuccessful.

Thank you in advance. BR.

You should use the trigger method to trigger an event

 $('#treeview li span.Running').click();

should be:

 $('#treeview li span.Running').trigger('click');

http://docs.jquery.com/Events/trigger

Have you made sure that $('#treeview li span.Running') is selecting the item that you are hoping it will?

My function for catching the event was written after the function for triggering the event. When I move the catching function at the front everything start to work correctly.