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# Namespace: event

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## apex.event

This namespace is used to store all event related functions of Oracle APEX.

### Functions

#### (static) trigger(pSelector, pEvent, pDataopt) → {boolean}

Function used to trigger events, return value defines if the event should be cancelled.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Attributes | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
`pSelector` | jQuery |  | Selector for the element upon which the event will be triggered
`pEvent` | string |  | The name of the event
`pData` | string | Array | Object | <optional> | Optional additional parameters to pass along to the event handler

##### Returns:

true if the event is cancelled.

Type
  boolean

##### Example

Example shows triggering an event called 'click', on an element using the jQuery selector '#myLink' (matches an element with id='myLink'), passing an array of data.

    lCancelEvent = apex.event.trigger('#myLink', 'click', ['apples','pears']);