Cross-posting from Bind to all namespaces of custom jquery event
Try triggerAll instead of trigger:
(function($) {
$.fn.triggerAll = function(topics, data, delimiter) {
return this.each(function() {
var $this = $(this), chain = [], t = '';
delimiter = (delimiter || '.');
// rebuild chain
$.each(topics.split(delimiter), function(i,n) {
t += (i == 0 ? '' : delimiter) + n;
chain.push(t);
});
// append/prepend original topic?
data = (data || []);
data.push(topics);
$.each(chain, function(i,t) {
$this.trigger(t, data);
});
});
};
})(jQuery);
Granted, due to how jQuery handles triggering namespacing, triggering the "root" event actually fires the namespaced versions, so to get what you expect you'd need to use another character for the delimiter, like /, and then declare your events like:
var $o = $('#whatever');
// this will be triggered for all events starting with 'root'
$o.on('root', function () { console.log(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0)); });
// some arbitrary way to fire custom events
$o.on('click', function () {
$o.triggerAll('root/custom1/subA', ['1st', '2nd'], '/');
$o.triggerAll('root/custom2', [3, 4, 5], '/');
});