Attempting to trigger before & after events around jQuery show()

Question

I\'m trying to get a piece of our JavaScript run after some 3rd party code makes a modal dialog appear. I saw a pretty neat idea of hijacking the jQuery show function, but unfor

Answer 1

I found another solution to this over here, with a slight tweak of my own.

(function($){
    $.each(['show','hide'],function(i,ev){
        var el = $.fn[ev];              
        $.fn[ev] = function(){
            this.trigger(ev);
            return el.apply(this,arguments);
        };
    });                  
})(jQuery);

It doesn't offer the before/after events of other examples but it could certainly be elaborated on. It's working for me so far and hope it continues to do so--it's a nice little approach that can easily be expanded to other jQuery functions, including the various alternatives to show.

** Note this also fires an event for "hide".