Detect changed input text box
JqueryInputJquery Problem Overview
I've looked at numerous other questions and found very simple answers, including the code below. I simply want to detect when someone changes the content of a text box but for some reason it's not working... I get no console errors. When I set a breakpoint in the browser at the change()
function it never hits it.
$('#inputDatabaseName').change(function () {
alert('test');
});
<input id="inputDatabaseName">
Jquery Solutions
Solution 1 - Jquery
You can use the input
Javascript event in jQuery like this:
$('#inputDatabaseName').on('input',function(e){
alert('Changed!')
});
In pure JavaScript:
document.querySelector("input").addEventListener("change",function () {
alert("Input Changed");
})
Or like this:
<input id="inputDatabaseName" onchange="youFunction();"
onkeyup="this.onchange();" onpaste="this.onchange();" oninput="this.onchange();"/>
Solution 2 - Jquery
try keyup instead of change.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#inputDatabaseName').keyup(function () { alert('test'); });
});
</script>
Solution 3 - Jquery
Each answer is missing some points, so here is my solution:
$("#input").on("input", function(e) {
var input = $(this);
var val = input.val();
if (input.data("lastval") != val) {
input.data("lastval", val);
//your change action goes here
console.log(val);
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="input">
<p>Try to drag the letters and copy paste</p>
The Input Event
fires on Keyboard input, Mouse Drag, Autofill and Copy-Paste tested on Chrome and Firefox.
Checking for previous value makes it detect real changes, which means not firing when pasting the same thing or typing the same character or etc.
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/g6pcp/473/
update:
And if you like to run your change function
only when user finishes typing and prevent firing the change action several times, you could try this:
var timerid;
$("#input").on("input", function(e) {
var value = $(this).val();
if ($(this).data("lastval") != value) {
$(this).data("lastval", value);
clearTimeout(timerid);
timerid = setTimeout(function() {
//your change action goes here
console.log(value);
}, 500);
};
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="input">
If user starts typing (e.g. "foobar") this code prevents your change action
to run for every letter user types and and only runs when user stops typing, This is good specially for when you send the input to the server (e.g. search inputs), that way server does only one search for foobar
and not six searches for f
and then fo
and then foo
and foob
and so on.
Solution 4 - Jquery
Text inputs do not fire the change
event until they lose focus. Click outside of the input and the alert will show.
If the callback should fire before the text input loses focus, use the .keyup()
event.
Solution 5 - Jquery
onkeyup, onpaste, onchange, oninput
seems to be failing when the browser performs autofill on the textboxes. To handle such a case include "autocomplete='off'
" in your textfield to prevent browser from autofilling the textbox,
Eg,
<input id="inputDatabaseName" autocomplete='off' onchange="check();"
onkeyup="this.onchange();" onpaste="this.onchange();" oninput="this.onchange();" />
<script>
function check(){
alert("Input box changed");
// Things to do when the textbox changes
}
</script>
Solution 6 - Jquery
In my case, I had a textbox that was attached to a datepicker. The only solution that worked for me was to handle it inside the onSelect event of the datepicker.
<input type="text" id="bookdate">
$("#bookdate").datepicker({
onSelect: function (selected) {
//handle change event here
}
});
Solution 7 - Jquery
Try something like this, it always works.
$(function() {
$("#my_input").on("change paste keyup", function() {
alert($(this).val());
});
});
Solution 8 - Jquery
I think you can use keydown
too:
$('#fieldID').on('keydown', function (e) {
//console.log(e.which);
if (e.which === 8) {
//do something when pressing delete
return true;
} else {
//do something else
return false;
}
});
Solution 9 - Jquery
$('#inputDatabaseName').change(function(){
alert('Changed!')
});
Solution 10 - Jquery
WORKING:
$("#ContentPlaceHolder1_txtNombre").keyup(function () {
var txt = $(this).val();
$('.column').each(function () {
$(this).show();
if ($(this).text().toUpperCase().indexOf(txt.toUpperCase()) == -1) {
$(this).hide();
}
});
//}
});