jQuery - Fire change event onload

Question

I've a question related to a select element and jquery. I currently have a change event so the changeShippingForm function gets called when the select element value has been changed, this is working just fine.

But I also want the change event fired at onload. How can I achieve this?

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#shippingType').change(changeShippingForm);
});

function changeShippingForm() {
   // do some stuff
}

Answer 1

use .trigger()^help.

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#shippingType').change(changeShippingForm).trigger('change');
});

or even shorter, use the shortcut:

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#shippingType').change(changeShippingForm).change();
});