Firing events on CSS class changes in jQuery

Question

How can I fire an event if a CSS class is added or changed using jQuery? Does changing of a CSS class fire the jQuery change() event?

Answer 1

Just a proof of concept:

Look at the gist to see some annotations and stay up-to-date:

https://gist.github.com/yckart/c893d7db0f49b1ea4dfb

(function ($) {
  var methods = ['addClass', 'toggleClass', 'removeClass'];

  $.each(methods, function (index, method) {
    var originalMethod = $.fn[method];

    $.fn[method] = function () {
      var oldClass = this[0].className;
      var result = originalMethod.apply(this, arguments);
      var newClass = this[0].className;

      this.trigger(method, [oldClass, newClass]);

      return result;
    };
  });
}(window.jQuery || window.Zepto));

The usage is quite simple, just add a new listender on the node you want to observe and manipulate the classes as usually:

var $node = $('div')

// listen to class-manipulation
.on('addClass toggleClass removeClass', function (e, oldClass, newClass) {
  console.log('Changed from %s to %s due %s', oldClass, newClass, e.type);
})

// make some changes
.addClass('foo')
.removeClass('foo')
.toggleClass('foo');