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Asked: 2026-05-31T03:49:46+00:00

I’m just coming up to speed on jQuery, I’ll apologize up front if this

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I’m just coming up to speed on jQuery, I’ll apologize up front if this is a rookie error.

I’m attempting to get a simple custom trigger to fire without and success. Maybe someone can help help out and show me why this isn’t working.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <title>jQuery Trigger example</title>
  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>


  <script>
  $('#asset1').bind("triggerAssets", function() {
    alert('Assets');
  });
  </script>

  <script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
      $('#asset1').trigger("triggerAssets");
    });
  </script>

  </head>
  <body >
    <div id="asset1" class="assets" >Asset
        <table>
          <tr>
              <td>Field One: </td>
              <td><input type="text" name="fieldOne" id="exfieldOne" value=""/></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
              <td>Field Two: </td>
               <td><input type="text" name="fieldTwo" id="exfieldTwo" value=""/></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
              <td>Field Three: </td>
              <td><input type="text" name="fieldThree" id="exfieldThree" value=""/></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
     </div>    
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your binding function will run before the page is rendered; #asset1 doesn’t yet exist. Move it into the ready handler, which fires after the DOM is ready (and your element is present).

    $(document).ready(function(){ // wait until the DOM is ready, then do:

  $('#asset1').bind("triggerAssets", function() {
    alert('Assets');
  });

  $('#asset1').trigger("triggerAssets");

});
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