Fix click not being able to find the current element to use trigger('click') instead

What does this MR do?

This job -https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/-/jobs/19957322- was failing in 9-3-stable-patch-1 and a fix was made.

This MR cherry-picks that commit to master.

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

• Tests
  • All builds are passing
• Conform by the merge request performance guides
• Conform by the style guides
• Branch has no merge conflicts with master (if it does - rebase it please)
• Squashed related commits together

What are the relevant issue numbers?

Closes #34302 (closed)