As an addition to this, you can also listen for specific events, or custom
events like so:
$('#myDiv').bind('myCustomEvent',function(){
// do something
});
-----Original Message-----
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Josh Nathanson
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 4:11 PM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] Re: Fire events programmatically
Isn't that the same as this:
$("#ID1").trigger("change");
-- Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 11:30 AM
Subject: [jQuery] Fire events programmatically
>
> Sometimes it's needed to create an event programmatically. (Which is
> different from running an event function (triggering)
>
> This can be done by the following fire code
>
> var el=document.getElementById("ID1")
>
> fire(el,'change')
>
>
> function fire(evttype) {
> if (document.createEvent) {
> var evt = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents');
> evt.initEvent( evttype, false, false);
> el.dispatchEvent(evt);
> } else if (document.createEventObject) {
> el.fireEvent('on' + evttype);
> }
> }
> looks like this trick is not yet in jQuery, perhaps for a reason?
>
> Huub
>
> Regards
