Why does dynamically changing a checkbox not trigger a form change event?

Question

I wrote this snippet of javascript/jQuery to change a check box. http://jsfiddle.net/johnhoffman/crF93/

Javascript

$(function() {
    $(\"a\").click(         


        

Answer 1

This isn't surprising, but I guess you could as this to the list of non-effect in the msdn.

• "This event is fired when the contents are committed and not while the value is changing."
• "The onchange event does not fire when the selected option of the select object is changed programmatically."

You could always just .click() it jsFiddle