Question

I want to trigger this jquery function by using trigger method of JQuery. How can I do that ? Actually I dont even know the trigger method is suitable for user defined functions.

$('a.pop').click(function() {alert('testing'); }

this is not working

 $('a').trigger(testtt);

 var testtt = function(){ alert('aaa');} 

Answer 1

Very similar to the way you install the event handler:

$('a.pop').click();

If you have the name of the event you want to trigger as a string, you can also do it this way:

$('a.pop').trigger('click');

This is also the solution to use if you want to pass crafted data to the event handler — trigger also accepts a second parameter.