jQuery event triggering on all listeners

Question

I have a custom event I\'ve made which I would like to trigger at some point with no relevance to selection.

I.E - I would like to do something that would behave as

Answer 1

You can trigger an event on everything that has a handler bound like this:

$.event.trigger('customEvent'); 

This loops through $.cache to find what actually has a handler, then fires on those elements...rather than just finding every element and firing the event on each one.