Keypress event

[yzzzzz]

Hi,

<input type="text" onkeypress="ale rt(this.value)" >

This doesn't work, it is always 1 character missing because the event
triggers *before* the character is inserted into the text box. How can I
get the entire string, including the last character?
(only needs to work with Mozilla or NN7)

Thanks.

[Evertjan.]

Re: Keypress event

yzzzzz wrote on 13 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:[color=blue]
> <input type="text" onkeypress="ale rt(this.value)" >
>
> This doesn't work, it is always 1 character missing because the event
> triggers *before* the character is inserted into the text box. How can I
> get the entire string, including the last character?
> (only needs to work with Mozilla or NN7)[/color]

onkeyup= ?


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[yzzzzz]

Re: Keypress event

Scripsit "Evertjan." :
[color=blue]
> yzzzzz wrote on 13 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
>[color=green]
>><input type="text" onkeypress="ale rt(this.value)" >
>>
>>This doesn't work, it is always 1 character missing because the event
>>triggers *before* the character is inserted into the text box. How can I
>>get the entire string, including the last character?
>>(only needs to work with Mozilla or NN7)[/color]
>
> onkeyup= ?[/color]

No!!
I think the answer is something like onchange, but that only gets
triggered onblur in Mozilla...

[Grant Wagner]

Re: Keypress event

yzzzzz wrote:
[color=blue]
> Scripsit "Evertjan." :
>[color=green]
> > yzzzzz wrote on 13 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
> >[color=darkred]
> >><input type="text" onkeypress="ale rt(this.value)" >
> >>
> >>This doesn't work, it is always 1 character missing because the event
> >>triggers *before* the character is inserted into the text box. How can I
> >>get the entire string, including the last character?
> >>(only needs to work with Mozilla or NN7)[/color]
> >
> > onkeyup= ?[/color]
>
> No!!
> I think the answer is something like onchange, but that only gets
> triggered onblur in Mozilla...[/color]

What do you mean, no?

<form name="myForm">
<input type="text" name="test" onkeyup="alert( this.value);" />
</form>

Tested and alerts the entire content of the input each time a key is released
in IE6SP1, Mozilla 1.5a, Netscape 4.78 and Opera 7.11.

Note that in Mozilla, the backspace key causes a keyup event, but not in IE,
so when the user backspaces in the input, you won't know about the content of
the input until they press another character or tab out (at which point you
could test the content in the onblur event).

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[Evertjan.]

Re: Keypress event

Grant Wagner wrote on 14 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
[color=blue]
> yzzzzz wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Scripsit "Evertjan." :
>>[color=darkred]
>> > yzzzzz wrote on 13 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
>> >
>> >><input type="text" onkeypress="ale rt(this.value)" >
>> >>
>> >>This doesn't work, it is always 1 character missing because the
>> >>event triggers *before* the character is inserted into the text
>> >>box. How can I get the entire string, including the last character?
>> >>(only needs to work with Mozilla or NN7)
>> >
>> > onkeyup= ?[/color]
>>
>> No!!
>> I think the answer is something like onchange, but that only gets
>> triggered onblur in Mozilla...[/color]
>
> What do you mean, no?
>
> <form name="myForm">
> <input type="text" name="test" onkeyup="alert( this.value);" />
> </form>
>
> Tested and alerts the entire content of the input each time a key is
> released in IE6SP1, Mozilla 1.5a, Netscape 4.78 and Opera 7.11.
>[/color]

Thanks. I usually do not follow up those unsubstanciated "no"s,
for who knows ;-)

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