// Add an event listener
document.addEventListener("name-of-event", function(e) {
console.log(e.detail); // Prints "Example of an event"
});
// Create the event
var event = new CustomEvent("name-of-event", { "detail": "Example of an event" });
// Dispatch/Trigger/Fire the event
document.dispatchEvent(event);
function fireEvent(node, eventName) {
// Make sure we use the ownerDocument from the provided node to avoid cross-window problems
var doc;
if (node.ownerDocument) {
doc = node.ownerDocument;
} else if (node.nodeType == 9) {
// the node may be the document itself, nodeType 9 = DOCUMENT_NODE
doc = node;
} else {
throw new Error("Invalid node passed to fireEvent: " + node.id);
}
if (node.dispatchEvent) {
// Gecko-style approach (now the standard) takes more work
var eventClass = "";
// Different events have different event classes.
// If this switch statement can't map an eventName to an eventClass,
// the event firing is going to fail.
switch (eventName) {
case "click": // Dispatching of 'click' appears to not work correctly in Safari. Use 'mousedown' or 'mouseup' instead.
case "mousedown":
case "mouseup":
eventClass = "MouseEvents";
break;
case "focus":
case "change":
case "blur":
case "select":
eventClass = "HTMLEvents";
break;
default:
throw "fireEvent: Couldn't find an event class for event '" + eventName + "'.";
break;
}
var event = doc.createEvent(eventClass);
var bubbles = eventName == "change" ? false : true;
event.initEvent(eventName, bubbles, true); // All events created as bubbling and cancelable.
event.synthetic = true; // allow detection of synthetic events
// The second parameter says go ahead with the default action
node.dispatchEvent(event, true);
} else if (node.fireEvent) {
// IE-old school style
var event = doc.createEventObject();
event.synthetic = true; // allow detection of synthetic events
node.fireEvent("on" + eventName, event);
}
};
document.addEventListener("my_event", function(e) {
console.log(e.detail);
});
var detail = 'Event fired';
try {
// For modern browsers except IE:
var event = new CustomEvent('my_event', {detail:detail});
} catch(err) {
// If IE 11 (or 10 or 9...?) do it this way:
// Create the event.
var event = document.createEvent('Event');
// Define that the event name is 'build'.
event.initEvent('my_event', true, true);
event.detail = detail;
}
// Dispatch/Trigger/Fire the event
document.dispatchEvent(event);
<a href="demoLink" id="myLink"> myLink </a>
<button onclick="fireLink(event)"> Call My Link </button>
JS
// click event listener of the link element --------------
document.getElementById('myLink').addEventListener("click", callLink);
function callLink(e) {
// code to fire
}
// function invoked by the button element ----------------
function fireLink(event) {
document.getElementById('myLink').click(); // script calls the "click" event of the link element
}