jQuery.Event Constructor

The jQuery.Event constructor is exposed and can be used when calling trigger. The new operator is optional.

Check trigger's documentation to see how to combine it with your own event object.

Example:

//Create a new jQuery.Event object without the "new" operator.
var e = jQuery.Event( "click" );
 
// trigger an artificial click event
jQuery( "body" ).trigger( e );

As of jQuery 1.6, you can also pass an object to jQuery.Event() and its properties will be set on the newly created Event object.

Example:

// Create a new jQuery.Event object with specified event properties.
var e = jQuery.Event( "keydown", { keyCode: 64 } );
 
// trigger an artificial keydown event with keyCode 64
jQuery( "body" ).trigger( e );

Event Properties

jQuery normalizes the following properties for cross-browser consistency:

• target
• relatedTarget
• pageX
• pageY
• which
• metaKey

The following properties are also copied to the event object, though some of their values may be undefined depending on the event:

altKey, bubbles, button, cancelable, charCode, clientX, clientY, ctrlKey, currentTarget, data, detail, eventPhase, metaKey, offsetX, offsetY, originalTarget, pageX, pageY, prevValue, relatedTarget, screenX, screenY, shiftKey, target, view, which

OtherProperties

Certain events may have properties specific to them. Those can be accessed as properties of the event.originalEvent object.

Example:

// add the dataTransfer property for use with the native `drop` event
// to capture information about files dropped into the browser window
jQuery.event.props.push( "dataTransfer" );