Jquery: Returning Value From Trigger

Question

I am using a trigger call a get a value from custom event but I want it to return a value and its only giving me Object Object when I do the following call:

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Answer 1

The trigger function doesn't return the value you return from the event handler.

It returns jQuery object...

.trigger( eventType [, extraParameters] ) Returns: jQuery

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This was designed so you could write things like this:

$("#my_div").trigger("get_id", [username]).val('foo').css('color', 'red');