Chrome Extension Making Mouse Click With Extension

Is it possible to make particular elements act as it was clicked on them by calling another function? For example I am trying to make an extension which will automatically clicks a

Solution 1:

I think this can be done by the content script. I would add a listener to the extension icon click in the background page. After the callback is triggered, I would inject a content script into the page with UI element. And in this content script I would find a button and trigger click on it.