Programmatically call “mousemove” event in JS

Question

Is there a possibility to programmatically call the mousemove event in jQuery? Obviously, I'm not going to change the actual position of the cursor - it's impossible. All I want is re-call this event so all other scripts that have attached their handers to it will also be called.

Answer 1

To trigger event handlers bound to the mousemove event you can use trigger()

$('#elementID').on('mousemove', function() {
     // do stuff
});

$('#elementID').trigger('mousemove'); // triggers above event handler