Web Development with jQuery®

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Creating Custom Events (^) ❘ 81
Custom events exist to fulfi ll the need of providing more fl exibility and extensibility in your appli-
cations. This, in turn, makes it possible to drop your application into the page where the user can
attach custom event handlers to accommodate their imagined uses for your application. Custom
events are demonstrated in the following example, which can be found as Example 3-5 in the source
materials:
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