Fire oninput event with jQuery

dom-events, events, html, javascript, jquery

Solution

Use `.on('input')`. For example:

$('textarea').on('input', function() {
  text = $('textarea').val();
  $('div').html(text);
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<textarea placeholder="Type something here"></textarea>
<div></div>

Problem

I have an oninput event on a textarea to check the height and resize it. Now I need to edit the value sometimes. I do this just by editting the val() in jQuery, but that does not trigger the oninput event. Is there any way to trigger the oninput event programatically with jQuery?

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