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Posted by Steve Pugh on 11/30/05 13:25
Smugsboy wrote:
> Got a problem here, hope someone can help.
> I want to fetch edit box's (<input type="text"...) value string upon
> change. What I do is I attach handler to the onkeypress event. I have
> two issues with this:
>
> 1. When the onkeypress handler executes I do not get the latest char
> that was pressed (if the 't' char for "cat" was pressed I'll only get
> "ca"), this is true for both IE & Firefox. Is there any solution to
> this ? I need a solution that will work both on IE & Firefox.
Depends on the order of events I suppose. Looks like the keypress event
takes place before the content of the input is changed. the onkeypress
event isn't really the best tool for the job...
> 2. Is there a more through event I should attach to ? because using
> only the onkeypress I miss copy-paste operations.
onchange
Steve
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