Re: [jQuery] oninput bug workaround

On 09/10/06, Duncan Anker <danker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Oninput is a firefox event, it fires whenever the text being
> displayed would change, e.g. after a paste (so it's similar to the IE
> event onpaste). Onkeypress won't catch right-click pastes or auto-
> completion, and I believe that onchange doesn't fire until the field
> loses focus.
>
> Anyway, it's not really a jQuery problem, there is a bug filed for it
> (since it clearly doesn't function even when used directly). I was
> just hoping there might be a jQuery way to implement the workaround
> to avoid dragging in other libraries that aren't otherwise needed.
>
> Regards,
> Duncan


oninput doesn't seem to be documented by Mozilla. The only thing I can
find is to do with XUL. As it isn't documented for the HTML DOM, there
is a chance it may be dropped in the future.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Special:Search?search=oninput&go=Go