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Manual mouse event using document.createEvent() and element.dispatchEvent()
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manualMouseEvent.js
// modern
var evt = new Event("mouseup", {"bubbles":true, "cancelable":true});
document.querySelector(".foo-bar").dispatchEvent(evt);
// deprecated
var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
evt.initEvent("mouseup", true, true);
document.querySelector(".foo-bar").dispatchEvent(evt);
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