Question

Is there a way to say on any event fire

    $('#foo').bind('click', function() {
          alert($(this).text());
     });

I am trying to test a piece of code for a certain event and not going in there. Just want it to fire fore ANY event.

    $('#foo').bind('ANY', function() {
          alert($(this).text());
     });

Answer 1

There’s no shorthand for listening to all events.

The closest thing you can get out of the box would be specifying them manually:

$('#foo').bind('blur change click dblclick focus focusin focusout hover keydown ...', function() {
    alert($(this).text());
});

Note that plugins may fire their own events, perhaps namespaced. You can’t listen to these events without knowing them and manually specifying them.