Question

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.

Answer 1

There is no real solution to this – even in the links to other questions given above. In the end I have decided to use setTimeout and call a method that checks every second! Not an ideal solution, but a solution that works and code I am calling is simple enough to not have an effect on performance by being called all the time.

function InitPageControls() {
        CheckIfChanged();
    }

    function CheckIfChanged() {
        // do logic

        setTimeout(function () {
            CheckIfChanged();
        }, 1000);
    }

Hope this helps someone in the future as it seems there is no surefire way of acheiving this using event handlers…