How to fire JQuery change event when input value changed programmatically?

Question

I want to fire the JQuery change event when the input text is changed programmatically, for example like this:

Answer 1

What you need to do is trigger the change event after you've set the text. So you may create a function to do that so you won't have to repeat it every time you need to update the text, like this:

function changeTextProgrammatically(value) {
    $("input").val( value );
    $("input").trigger( 'change' ); // Triggers the change event
}

changeTextProgrammatically( "A" );

I've updated the fiddle,