Detect element content changes with jQuery

Question

change() function works and detects changes on form elements, but is there a way of detecting when a DOM element\'s content was changed?

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Answer 1

It's not strictly a jQuery answer - but useful to mention for debugging.

In Firebug you can right-click on an element in the DOM tree and set up 'Break on Attribute Change':

When an attribute is changed in a script, the debug window will appear and you can track down what it going on. There is also an option for element insertion and element removal below (unhelpfully obscured by the popup in the screengrab).