Allow detail argument for HTMLElement.click()

[MichaelAllenWarner]

It would be useful if HTMLElement.click() accepted an optional Number argument that became the value of the synthetic event's detail property (representing the click-count).

Currently, one can do something like EventTarget.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click', { detail: 1 })) to achieve more-or-less the same thing, but:

1. it's a bit ugly and cumbersome; and
2. it's not quite the same thing, at least in terms of implementation. For example, in all browsers that I tested, HTMLElement.click() has no effect when the target is a disabled button, but when I tried using EventTarget.dispatchEvent() to fire a click-event on a disabled button, I found that behavior differed across browsers—e.g., in Safari the event-handler was executed, and in Chrome it was not.

[saschanaz]

2. but when I tried using EventTarget.dispatchEvent() to fire a click-event on a disabled button, I found that behavior differed across browsers—e.g., in Safari the event-handler was executed, and in Chrome it was not.

#2368? 🤔