I want to run a function when a user edits the content of a div
with contenteditable
attribute. What's the equivalent of an onchange
event?
I'm using jQuery so any solutions that uses jQuery is preferred. Thanks!
You can use localStorage to save data. The trigger can be when contentEditable gets disabled. Save the content into localStorage and upon page load, restore the localStorage value (if there is one), or load the default content if not.
contenteditable="false" Indicates that the element is not editable. contenteditable="inherit" Indicates that the element is editable if its immediate parent element is editable.
The contenteditable global attribute is an enumerated attribute indicating if the element should be editable by the user. If so, the browser modifies its widget to allow editing.
The contenteditable attribute specifies whether the content of an element is editable or not.
I'd suggest attaching listeners to key events fired by the editable element, though you need to be aware that keydown
and keypress
events are fired before the content itself is changed. This won't cover every possible means of changing the content: the user can also use cut, copy and paste from the Edit or context browser menus, so you may want to handle the cut
copy
and paste
events too. Also, the user can drop text or other content, so there are more events there (mouseup
, for example). You may want to poll the element's contents as a fallback.
UPDATE 29 October 2014
The HTML5 input
event is the answer in the long term. At the time of writing, it is supported for contenteditable
elements in current Mozilla (from Firefox 14) and WebKit/Blink browsers, but not IE.
Demo:
document.getElementById("editor").addEventListener("input", function() { console.log("input event fired"); }, false);
<div contenteditable="true" id="editor">Please type something in here</div>
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ch6yn/2691/
Here is a more efficient version which uses on
for all contenteditables. It's based off the top answers here.
$('body').on('focus', '[contenteditable]', function() { const $this = $(this); $this.data('before', $this.html()); }).on('blur keyup paste input', '[contenteditable]', function() { const $this = $(this); if ($this.data('before') !== $this.html()) { $this.data('before', $this.html()); $this.trigger('change'); } });
The project is here: https://github.com/balupton/html5edit
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