[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