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Code Snippets → jQuery Code Snippets → Check if Event was Triggered or Native

Chris Coyier on Dec 25, 2010

$('button').click(function(event, wasTriggered) {
    if (wasTriggered) {
        alert('triggered in code');
    } else {
        alert('triggered by mouse');
    }
});

$('button').trigger('click', true);

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CodeRenaissance

Permalink to comment# January 25, 2012

It’s probably good to note that if someone codes $(‘button’).click() it displays “triggered by mouse”.

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Ben

Permalink to comment# September 5, 2012
It doesn’t look like jQuery’s newer .on() supports this technique. The following works by simply leveraging the event object:
```
$('button').on('click', function (event) {
    if (e.originalEvent === undefined) alert ('triggered by code');
    else alert ('triggered by mouse');
})
```
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- Ben
  
  Permalink to comment# September 5, 2012
  Sorry – mistyped
```
... if (event.originalEvent === undefined) ...
```
- Owen
  
  Permalink to comment# February 18, 2021
  
  UPDATE 2021: event.originalEvent on it’s own is not working anymore in my testing.
  
  This works:
  
  if (e.originalEvent.isTrusted === false) alert('triggered by code')
nicolas

Permalink to comment# August 15, 2013

hey Ben,
I think your code is better:)
cheers!

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