Question

Is there anyway I can use native javascript to fire an event called onmove which is only for IE.
I can get it to work if I do this.

document.getElementById("device-module").fireEvent("onmove");

This issue here is I don’t want to have to pass an id into the custom jquery prototype. I already know what the element is I just need to call javascript native fireEvent on that element.
Is this possible or do I have to always get the dom element by document.getElementById() before I can use the js native fireEvent method.

  $.fn.custom = function() {  

    return this.each(function() {
          var _this = $(this);
         _this.fireEvent("onmove");

        });

};

Answer 1

the value of the this in an each() is the DOM element itself. you can directly access it this way. no need to wrap again in $()

return this.each(function() {
    //the value of "this" in here IS the DOM element
    this.fireEvent('onmove');
});