jQuery target generic class item but unique href with trigger click

Question

I am trying to target a generic item class with a unique href value based on if hash value is appended to the url unload I want to emulate the click that would normally happen on the page.

jQuery:

if(window.location.hash) {
    var hash = window.location.hash;
    function showHashVideo() {
        jQuery("a.btn").attr("href", hash).trigger('click');
    }
    jQuery(showHashVideo);
}

HTML:

<a class="btn btn-mini" href="#help-video-modal-Graphing" data-url="video-url" data-title="Graphing">Watch Video</a>

Answer 1

As far as I can read you want to find elements HREF which matches an A element. You can do this:

jQuery("a.btn[href='" + hash + "']").trigger("click");

This will trigger a click on the a.btn with the href=hash.

Answer 2

jQuery trigger will not trigger DOM event clicks, so you must do this.

jQuery("a.btn").attr("href", hash).get(0).click()

You need to use Attribute-Equals-Selector jQuery( "[attribute='value']" )

jQuery('a.btn[href="' + hash + '"]').get(0).click();