triggering an event with jQuery live or delegate

Question

I'd like to attach a handler to an element using either jQuery live() or delegate(). Looking at the docs I see I can attach the handler for a custom event.

Is this possible for either of these jQuery functions to also trigger the handler? Basically I want to attach the handler function and run call it once.

Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

If you only want to call it one time, then you might be better off with the .one() method.

If you want to invoke an event that has already been bound you can call the .trigger() method.

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

Answer 2

Try delegating the ready event as well-- with the same event handler of course.