simulate a mouse down and up on a canvas html5 page

How can I simulate a mouse down and then followed by a mouse up event on a canvas hmtl5 section of an aspx page?

I searched on the web and found this… but i cannot correlate this to my canvas html5 element, Can anyone help ?

dispatchMouseEvent(element, 'mouseover', true, true);
dispatchMouseEvent(element, 'mousedown', true, true);
dispatchMouseEvent(element, 'click', true, true);
dispatchMouseEvent(element, 'mouseup', true, true);

Answers:

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Method 1

“Simulating” events is very easy, in fact, you can simply trigger them. Using jQuery, this becomes child’s play (see this jsfiddle for working example):

$('#canvas_element').on("mousedown mouseup", function(e) {
console.log(e.type + " event fired at coords: " + e.pageX + ", " + e.pageY);
});

x_coord = 1;
y_coord = 1;

var e = jQuery.Event( "mousedown", { pageX: x_coord, pageY: y_coord } );
$('#canvas_element').trigger(e);

// execute more code
x_coord = 255;
y_coord = 255;

var e = jQuery.Event( "mouseup", { pageX: x_coord, pageY: y_coord } );
$('#canvas_element').trigger(e);

See this old SO question for a pure javascript solution.

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