Question

Code like:

...text <span contenteditable="true" onChange="someFunction()">blah blah</span> text...

The onChange event doesn’t work. (at least in FireFox)
I don’t want to use textarea/input tags, because there must be available to change only particular words in text, and must be displayed inline (not block).

Is there any way how to do that ?

Answer 1

The function that I wrote:
One call of this function fixes all ContentEditable elements in the page.

function fix_onChange_editable_elements()
{
  var tags = document.querySelectorAll('[contenteditable=true][onChange]');//(requires FF 3.1+, Safari 3.1+, IE8+)
  for (var i=tags.length-1; i>=0; i--) if (typeof(tags[i].onblur)!='function')
  {
    tags[i].onfocus = function()
    {
      this.data_orig=this.innerHTML;
    };
    tags[i].onblur = function()
    {
      if (this.innerHTML != this.data_orig)
        this.onchange();
      delete this.data_orig;
    };
  }
}