Open select clicking another element with javascript
<p>I've been looking for a way to open a select / combobox clicking another element. I read  answers saying that is impossible but... How is facebook doing it?</p>

<p>In your facebook timeline, when you want to change the date of a status, there is an ahchor and when you click it, a combobox appears. I thought they had applied styles to their select so it would look like an anchor but it wasn't like that. </p>

<p>Their HTML code has an anchor and a select element, this last one is hidden. Then, I know the select element is positioned as absolute but I can't get from their javascript code how it works.</p>

<p>I tried to simulate it like this</p>

<pre><code>$('#element').click();
document.getElementById('element').click();
</code></pre>

<p>None of this works. I saw a script that duplicated the SELECT element but it add 2 attributes to it: multiple and size. This changes the look of the select.</p>

<p>I would like to know how it would be possible? I know maybe it won't work in IE &lt; 9.</p>
