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JavaScript Introduction to jQuery Events Event Types

Posted by nathanielcusano
nathanielcusano
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Which of the following is NOT a potential method for attaching event handlers to DOM elements?

I can't understand the documentation on the trigger() method in simple terms.

1 Answer

Michael Braga
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Michael Braga
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The tirgger() method does not attach event handlers to DOM elements. Instead, as its name suggests, triggers event handlers from other places in your code manually. For example, if you have a click event for button 1 you can trigger that click event from any other place in your code with $( "button:first" ).trigger( "click" ); The jQuery API Doc has a good example if you scroll to the bottom:

http://api.jquery.com/trigger/

Also you can tell it is not a method for attaching event handlers because it does not accept a callback function as one of its parameters like we saw for .on() and .click().