Learn how to trigger an event on an HTML element using JavaScript.

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Learn how to programmatically trigger an event on an HTML element using JavaScript. The `dispatchEvent` method allows triggering events, and the `CustomEvent` constructor can be used to pass custom data to the event listener.

Programmatically trigger event on HTML element using JavaScript