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Asked: 2026-06-12T08:14:39+00:00

I was wondering if there is any way to automatically retrieve all elements (or

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I was wondering if there is any way to automatically retrieve all elements (or jQuery selectors) that have been bound to a custom events?

In others words, I have bound the following elements to the event “something_added”:

$('div#slider').bind('something_added',function(){});
$('input#add').bind('something_added',function(){});

Anyway to automatically retrieve $('div#slider') and $('input#add') using the event name (‘something_added’)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can select all elements and traverse their collection of events, looking for the event you are interested in : 

    jQuery.each($('#someElementId').data('events'), function(i, event){

    jQuery.each(event, function(i, handler){

        console.log( handler.toString() );

    });

});

    not sure if it works in jquery 1.8

    update: here is an example I put together : http://jsfiddle.net/nicholmikey/sADZU/5/ 

    <html>

    <body>

        <form method="post" action="#">
            <input type="submit" value="Submit" onClick="return false">           
        </form>
    </body>

</html>​

    and the jquery (1.7.2): 

    $('input').bind('something_added', function() {});


$.each($('*'), function(i, events) {

    var events = $(this).data('events');
    if (events != null) {
        $.each(events, function(h, event) {
            alert(event[0].type);
    });
}

});

    Once you find an element that has the event you are looking for, you can use $(this) as it relates to the each($(‘*’)) and do the work you are looking to do

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