I’m creating a fork of the textchange jQuery plugin , which uses the jQuery.event.special

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Asked: May 28, 20262026-05-28T07:45:51+00:00 2026-05-28T07:45:51+00:00

I’m creating a fork of the textchange jQuery plugin , which uses the jQuery.event.special

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I’m creating a fork of the textchange jQuery plugin, which uses the jQuery.event.special API to create its own custom events (textchange, hastext, and notext).

I’m going crazy trying to find the documentation for the $.event.special API! I’ve searched jQuery’s site and found nothing that mentions the special functionality. I’ve found several blogs that talk about API and even reference a link to it, but that page does not talk about it at all.

Can someone please point me toward some documentation for this "special" API? I’m mainly interested in jQuery’s documentation, because I want to know the "official" source of this API.

UPDATE:

I looked at jQuery’s source, and they use the $.event.special API for certain events (including ready and hover), so it’s obviously not obsolete as I previously thought.