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jQuery textbox change event

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Does text input element not have a change event? When I attach a change event handler to a text input it is not being fired. Keyup is fired, but keyup is not sufficient for detecting a change as there are obviously other ways of entering text into an input.

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jcvandan Avatar asked May 26 '11 14:05

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The HTML4 spec for the <input> element specifies the following script events are available:

onfocus, onblur, onselect, onchange, onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

here's an example that bind's to all these events and shows what's going on http://jsfiddle.net/pxfunc/zJ7Lf/

I think you can filter out which events are truly relevent to your situation and detect what the text value was before and after the event to determine a change

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MikeM Avatar answered Oct 12 '22 23:10

MikeM


I have found that this works:

$(document).ready(function(){     $('textarea').bind('input propertychange', function() {         //do your update here     }  }) 
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Pow-Ian Avatar answered Oct 13 '22 00:10

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