[SOLVED] How to programmatically fire a dblclick event defined with addEventListener?

How to programmatically fire a dblclick event defined with addEventListener?

For JS Unit test, I need to check that a double-click behaves as expected. The issue is that the event was registered via element.addEventListener. And for some reason, in this case, element.ondblclick() does not work. HTML:

<input type="image" src="pic.jpg" id="aa"/>

Javasript:

document.getElementById('aa').addEventListener("dblclick", function(){alert('aa')});
document.getElementById('aa').ondblclick();

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/prZKy/

If you double click on the image, it works, but the ondblclick() in the javascript does not work.

Anyone has an idea on how to do it?

Solution

You can use dispatchEvent to programatically trigger events:

var event = new MouseEvent('dblclick', {
    'view': window,
    'bubbles': true,
    'cancelable': true
  });
document.getElementById('aa').dispatchEvent(event);

See the section "Triggering built-in events" on MDN.