Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

More about special events

While this chapter covers advanced techniques for dealing with events, the event extension API is very advanced indeed, and a detailed investigation is beyond the scope of this book. The previous throttledScroll example covers the simplest and most common usage of the facility. Other possible applications include the following:

• Modifying the event object, so that event handlers have different information available to them
• Causing events that occur in one place in the DOM to trigger behaviors associated with different elements
• Reacting to new and browser-specific events that are not standard DOM events and allowing jQuery code to react to them as if they are standard
• Changing the way event bubbling and delegation ...