thats what i was looking for, thanks!
On Nov 21, 10:25 pm, "Jeffrey Kretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used a pattern like this:
>
> var table = $('table.class')
> .bind('click',selectCell);
>
> function selectCell(e)
> {
> var cell = e.target;
> do_something();
>
> }
>
> var cell = table.find('td.eq(8)');
> selectCell.apply(table[0],[{target:cell[0]}]);
>
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of Leeoniya
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:11 PM
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] event delegation - great, but how does one trigger the
> handlers through code?
>
> During event delegation, handlers are registered higher in the DOM
> tree and then filtered when the event is triggered. This is great if
> you have 2000 td/th cells, you can attach a listener to tbody and
> filter down. But would i trigger the event programatically? Since the
> handler isnt actually registered on the td cells, i cant figure out a
> way to do this except maybe construct a fake event with the source
> element by hand and pass it into the handler somehow??
>
> this is the biggest drawback to delegation that i have run into, it
> would be great to find a good way to manually trigger these events -
> if anyone has some advice, please share.
>
> thanks,
> Leon
