398974 - OnChange event not fired after typing some chars and then selecting one item from the autocomplete list.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388558

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Meda Pu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5

This is a serious bug that prevents forms to behave correctly. This way the onChange event of an input field is not triggered when a user uses autocomplete to enter a value. I've reproduce the bug in 2.0.0.8/rc1 (nightly build Sep 7th 2007).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Text input field with an onChange event handler.
2. Fill in value, leave input (event fires), post.
3. Open again.
4. Fill in the same value, leave input (event fires), post.
5. Open again.
6. Fill in a beginning of the same value, select the same value from the autocomplete list, leave input (event DOES NOT fire), post.
Actual Results:  
The onChange event is never fired in step 6.

Expected Results:  
The onChange event should be fired in step 6.

Comment 1

[Allan Jensen]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

I experience the exact same problem. This must be addressed ASAP as it's breaking validation of information in forms.

Meanwhile I have to use onblur instead to fix the problem, but that results in other disadvantages.