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Chapter 9. Advanced Events > Speeding Up Global Event Triggering
9.3. Speeding Up Global Event Triggering
9.3.1. Problem
Global event triggering implicates calling all the event handlers bound for a certain event, on all available elements.
It is performed by calling jQuery.trigger() without passing any DOM element as context. It is nearly the same as calling trigger() on all the elements that have one or more bindings to the corresponding event, something like this:
