Trigger “onchange” event

Question

The \"onchange\" event is triggered only when the USER enters some value. Why isn\'t possible to fire the event when I change the value automatically via Javascript ? Is the

Answer 1

The code of Crowder only gave me an TypeError (Not enough arguments to UIEvent.initUIEvent). Change it to this:

input.value = "Another example";
var event = document.createEvent("UIEvents");
event.initUIEvent("change", true, true, window, 1);
input.dispatchEvent(event);

and it works.