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Posted by Smugsboy on 10/07/87 11:33
Jonhathan,
What do you mean by "checkered support" ?
If I use the onkeyup, will it respond for every char input (even if I
press a long keystroke which translates to several input characters) ?
Are the event the same in IE/FF?
Thanks,
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Steve Pugh wrote:
> > 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
>
> 'onchange' with fire after user presses 'enter' or leaves the field as
> with an 'onblur'. Sounds like the behavior that the OP seeks is
> 'onkeyup' which fires AFTER the key is pressed. My understanding is
> 'onkeyup' has checkered support...others may have more info on the subject.
>
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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