Triggering an event calls the method with the same name as the event type

[brian@…]

Example:

var obj = {}; 
obj.cancel = function() {
  $(obj).trigger('cancel');
}; 
obj.cancel();

This results in an infinite loop because triggering 'cancel' calls 'cancel' on itself (which re-triggers 'cancel'...).

Tested against 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

[dmethvin]

Yep, as documented. And if you don't want it to do that? Read the documentation for the answer. ​http://api.jquery.com/trigger/

[dmethvin]

Duplicate of #10907.