Custom event in HTML, Javascript

Question

I\'m looking to create a custom event in HTML, JS.

How can I create one such? \'

Answer 1

You want a CustomEvent

They should be easy to work with but browser support is poor. However the DOM-shim should fix that.

var ev = new CustomEvent("someString");
var el = document.getElementById("someElement");
el.addEventListener("someString", function (ev) {
    // should work
});
el.dispatchEvent(ev);