Fire oninput event with jQuery

Question

I have an oninput event on a textarea to check the height and resize it. Now I need to edit the value sometimes. I do this just by editting the val() in jQuery, but that doe

Answer 1

It is a bit too late, but for future reference, there is the .trigger method.

$("#testArea").on("input", function(e) {
  $("#outputArea").text( $(e.target).val() )
});

$("#testArea").val("This is a test");
$("#testArea").trigger("input");

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<input id="testArea" type="text" />
<div id="outputArea"></div>