Jquery: Returning Value From Trigger

Question

I am using a trigger call a get a value from custom event but I want it to return a value and its only giving me Object Object when I do the following call:

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Answer 1

What you can do is use .triggerHandler() instead of .trigger(). This will return a value.

var user_id=$("#my_div").triggerHandler("get_id", [username]);