Any event triggered on autocomplete?

Question

I have a pretty simple form. When the user types in an input field, I want to update what they\'ve typed somewhere else on the page. This all works fine. I\'ve bound the

Answer 1

I recommending using monitorEvents. It's a function provide by the javascript console in both web inspector and firebug that prints out all events that are generated by an element. Here's an example of how you'd use it:

monitorEvents($("input")[0]);

In your case, both Firefox and Opera generate an input event when the user selects an item from the autocomplete drop down. In IE7-8 a change event is produced after the user changes focus. The latest Chrome does generate a similar event.

A detailed browser compatibility chart can be found here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/input