How to raise Jquery Events and handle them?

Question

I have a page with a widget in it. There is no cross scripting. I want to use Jquery events to communicate between the two. How can I raise a jquery event on a div in widget and then catch it in widget and do something with it?

Any examples or code snippets would be really helpful.

Answer 1

Take a look at this question, even if it's not exactly the same it might help you

Answer 2

If you can get by with the standard events then this is very simple. You bind an event handler to the div in the widget (assume the div has id="widget") thus:

$('#widget").bind('click', function(e){
    // your code here runs when widget div receives the click event.
    // e is the W3-standard DOM event, in case you need it, but
    // you're free to ignore it
});

then you can trigger that from elsewhere with $('#widget").click(). It would be neat to define custom events to do this but that's a bit more advanced. Once you have the basics working you can google "jquery custom events".