Question

It might be a beginner question but I can’t understand why the onchange event is never called by IE while it works Ok with Firefox.

<input type="text" id="mytext" size="48" value="" onchange="execute()"/>
<button type="button" onclick="execute()">Go</button>

The execute function is called when the button is clicked but not when the text in the input box is changed.

Any idea?

Answer 1

IE only fires the onchange event when the element loses focus – if you were to click outside the element or tab to a different element it should fire then.

You can get around this by using a different event, for example onkeypress.