How can I fire an event in WinJS (equivalent of .trigger("") in jQuery)

Question

I would like to know how can I fire an event from code. In jQuery to fire a "onchange" event you would simply $("selector").trigger("change"). Is there a way to do the same using WinJS.

[All suggestions of including jQuery will be discarded]

Thanks.

Answer 1

fireEvent is probably what you want.

Fires a specified event on the object.

Given that markup

<p>
    <button 
        id="oButton" 
        onclick="this.innerText='I have been clicked!'">Button
    </button>
</p>

You can do

oButton.fireEvent("onclick");