Problems with onchange in IE 5

lpatnaik · Mar 5, 2003

Hi,

I have a textbox in a page. I want to track the onchange events and populate a global variable. But in IE 5 I am facing some problem. The event doesnt fire. I have no idea about the solution. Could anyone help me out.

Also i cannot use the onblur event (which seems to be working fine) as only if there is some editing done that the variable needs to be populated. Hope I am being clear enough.

mwolf00 · Mar 5, 2003

As far a I know, the onChange event does not work with textboxes, try the onKeyPress event. I actually use the onBlur event to detect changes (I store the oeiginal data in an array and check the new data against the data in that array). Get the Best Answers! faq333-2924
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lpatnaik · Mar 5, 2003

But this does not sound feasible when you have a whole lot of items in the page. I could use the onKeyPress event but what if the user copies and pastes something on the textbox using his mouse.

Please reply asap

mwolf00 · Mar 6, 2003

I actually use it on database loaded forms with about 120 fields...

What I do is load the current field values into an array onLoad, then onBlur I check the entered value vs the stored value...

<script>
var allFields = new Array()
function loadArr(){
for (x=0; x<document.myForm.elements.length; x==){
allFields[x] = document.myForm.elements[x].value
}
}
function checkForChanges(){
for (x=0; x<document.myForm.elements.length; x==){
if (document.myForm.elements[x].value != allFields[x]){
alert("Field changed&quot

}
}
}
</script>

<body onLoad="loadArr()">
<form name="myForm">
<input name="someInput" onBlur="checkForChanges()">
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