Title: Manually trigger conditional fields
Last modified: October 13, 2016

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# Manually trigger conditional fields

 *  [leobaillard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leobaillard/)
 * (@leobaillard)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-trigger-conditional-fields/)
 * Hi!
 * I have a form using conditional groups and I use a custom dropdown widget in 
   order to match the client’s theme.
 * The actual CF7 dropdown list that’s triggering the groups is hidden and I change
   it’s value when the value of my custom dropdown changes. The problem is that 
   this doesn’t trigger the “change” event on the CF7 dropdown, thus not showing
   the groups.
 * I would like to manually trigger CF7’s conditional fields function. Is this possible?
   If so, how? I’ve tried using jQuery to manually trigger the “change” event on
   CF7’s dropdown, but it doesn’t work.
 * Any ideas?

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