concept _ trigger in category jQuery

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The only addition here is another one of the widget factory’s convenience methods: _trigger(). _trigger() takes three arguments: the name of the event, an event object, and an object with data associated with the event. You trigger either a "check" or an "uncheck" event (depending on whether the check box is checked), and you pass the value of the check box .