Is it possible to execute an inline click event function without executing a click event?

Question

Explaining by example:

$(".myCheckboxes").click(function () {
    ...
});

Inside the click event function I have code that does various things depending on what checkboxes are checked.

I however need to run this code to initialize it first, kindof like this:

$(".myCheckboxes").click(function () {
    ...
}).click();

It runs the code and it gets initialized, but it also clicks on all my checkboxes making them all invert their value.

Is it possible to execute the inline click event function wihtout executing a click event?

I would very much like to keep the function inline to keep the flow of the code. Also, it's not big enough to have the function outside of the event, but it's not so small as I would like to write the code twice.

Answer 1

triggerHandler triggers only the handler:

$(".myCheckboxes").click(function () {
    ...
}).each(function(i, checkbox) { 
    $(checkbox).triggerHandler('click'); 
}

Note that you need to iterate the checkboxes if you wish to trigger the handler for all of them instead of just the first one:

while .trigger() will operate on all elements matched by the jQuery object, .triggerHandler() only affects the first matched element.

Answer 2

Use a named function as the handler, bind it and execute it:

$(".myCheckboxes").click(clickHandler);
clickHandler();