jQuery 'input' event

Question

I\'ve never heard of an event in jQuery called input till I saw this jsfiddle.

Do you know why it\'s working? Is it an alias for keyup or s

Answer 1

I think 'input' simply works here the same way 'oninput' does in the DOM Level O Event Model.

Incidentally:

Just as silkfire commented it, I too googled for 'jQuery input event'. Thus I was led to here and astounded to learn that 'input' is an acceptable parameter to jquery's bind() command. In jQuery in Action (p. 102, 2008 ed.) 'input' is not mentionned as a possible event (against 20 others, from 'blur' to 'unload'). It is true that, on p. 92, the contrary could be surmised from rereading (i.e. from a reference to different string identifiers between Level 0 and Level 2 models). That is quite misleading.