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Re:jQuery 3.0 Released by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:06AM (#11875750)
Here's code I wrote a while ago that did exactly what I specified and worked in production on all major browsers:

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/blob/master/scripts...

Here's the code in the jQuery library you linked to that does exactly this as well:

https://github.com/component/file-picker/blob/master/index.j...

Re:jQuery 3.0 Released by drinchev on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:23AM (#11875844)
It has some problems with input type=file elements.

The devil is in the details, although obviously your code works for any other clickable elements.

1 : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement... 2 : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210643/in-javascript-can-...