Closed Bug 195696 Opened 21 years ago Closed 13 years ago

setting textbox.oninput has no effect

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(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: jruderman, Unassigned)

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Setting textbox.oninput in a script has no effect.  Using
addEventListener("input", ...) instead makes it work.  It works fine with
onchange, so I'm guessing this isn't intentional.
Attached file testcase
Assignee: saari → events
QA Contact: desale → ian
This also happens is XUL Runner 1.8.0.4 on OS X.
Assignee: events → nobody
QA Contact: ian → events
This is still an issue. Webkit has been receiving a lot of work on the 'input' event lately. Fixing this would help match Opera and Safari's support.
OS: Windows XP → All
I wonder how complicated it would be to fix this and if it can be done before final release? 

Another consequence of this issue (as I suspect) is that it's impossible to detect support for "input" event, using good old `setAttribute` check:

var el = document.createElement('input');
el.setAttribute('oninput', '');
'oninput' in el; // false

Note that detecting something like "change" event (as well as plethora of others) works just fine using this approach.
Looks like this extends to the newly added invalid event from the contraint validation API also. 

Using the setAttribute check as Juriy mentions above returns a false negative in FF4 beta5.
Perhaps I'm misusing the test case, but this seems to work fine in Firefox 6.

All three boxes behave the same. Whatever I type in a box is immediately visible in the "oninput" box, and shows in "onchange" when I tab out of it.

Shall I close this?
Things seem to be working fine for me now too in "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110902 Firefox/9.0a1".
"worksforme" because the exact revision that fixed this is uncertain.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
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