Tryit Editor v1.8

Source Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("button").click(function(){
    $("p").click();
  });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<button>Trigger click event for p element</button>
<p onclick="alert('Click event triggered')">This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Result:

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