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HTML
<a href="foo" href="#0">hi</a>
JavaScript
$( "#foo" ).on( "custom", function( event, param1, param2 ) {
alert( param1 + "\n" + param2 );
});
$("#foo").on("click", function(){
$( "#foo").trigger( "custom", [ "Custom", "Event" ] );
})