Question

What event is fired when you right-click on selected text in an <input> or <textarea> tag and then click “Delete” in Internet Explorer? (I’m targeting version 9, but if it’s good for lower versions too, all the better).

On other browsers , the “input” event appears to work for all text changes through right-click so doing

$("textarea").on("input", function() {...});

works. IE works for cut and paste, but not delete (JSFiddle here) although MDN claims that IE is supported.

Answer 1

As Ravi has written in the comments above, this is a known issue. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg592978(v=vs.85).aspx