The best approach will be to just use jQuery to bind the method if you
want to trigger that event.
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Brandon Aaron
On Nov 15, 11:49 am, prakash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently started using jQuery in Greasemonkey scripts and am loving
> it.
>
> I have two Greasemonkey scripts running on a page. Script A adds an
> element to the page and binds a mouseover handler using DOM
> addEventListener method. This script is not using jQuery.
>
> Script B wants to trigger the event on that element added by script A
> using the jQuery .trigger('mouseover') method. But the event doesn't
> fire.
>
> Looking at jQuery code (1.2.1) and with the help of Firebug, I found
> that .trigger('...') fires if the event handler was specified using
> 'on...' attributes to an element. But it doesn't fire if the event
> handler was bound via addEventListener. This seems to be true whether
> the element was "native" to the page or was dynamically added later by
> Greasemonkey.
>
> Is there any way I can make this work, short of merging the two
> scripts (which I'd rather not do), or rewriting the script A to use
> jQuery .bind() method to bind the event handler?
>
> Thanks for your time.
> /prakash
