Does Dojo have an equivalent to jQuery.trigger()?

Question

In jQuery, you can do this:

$(\'#myElement\').trigger(\'change\');

How do I do that in Dojo?

Answer 1

For certain dijit widgets and djit specific events ( such as onChange ), you can de-facto 'trigger' by calling the event name.

<input id="numberBox" data-dojo-type="dijit.form.NumberTextBox" /> 

<script>
    dojo.connect( dijit.byId('numberBox'), "onChange", function ( event ) { 
        dijit.byId('numberBox').set('value', 12345 );
    }); 

    dijit.byId('numberBox').onChange();
</script>