Question

I have a textarea. After writing some misspelled text and using rightclick -> correction the word gets replaced with a correctly spelled word.
Now, my problem here is that i need to exectue some javascript code when the correction gets done.

How can i catch the firefox spellcheck correction event?
If there is a only a solution using a firefox Add-On i would be happy too to know that one.

Answer 1

Mozilla fires oninput in this case, didn’t test in others, but should work everywhere.

Interestingly enough, FF seems to fire two input events when using spelling correction: it deletes the word first, and then inserts the new one:

> value=[holy coww]
(right click and choose "cow")
> value=[holy ]
> value=[holy cow]

http://jsfiddle.net/7ssYq/