I have been using Angular 6 and I am new to the Angular environment too. My problem is that I have been thinking about this in a jQuery way. I want to trigger an anchor link on page load like the below jQuery code in Angular 6. <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function () { $('#hello').click(function () { console.log('yo yo yo .....you good to go.!!!'); }); $('a').trigger('click'); }); </script> <a id="hello" href="http://www.google.com">Click me</a> How to achieve this in Angular 6? I know that we can add a click on the elements. But in my project, I don't know have a control on anchor tag. I mean I cannot add click method, instead I want to trigger it externally like jQuery. Continue reading...