Listening to events of a contenteditable HTML element

Question

I\'m trying to figure out if there is any way to listen to events like focus or change of an HTML element with contenteditable attribu

Answer 1

Not really. There is no change event for contenteditable elements, and there's no HTML5 input event either, although I think that will eventually appear. It's a pain.

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UPDATE 23 June 2012

Recent WebKit supports the HTML5 input event on contenteditable elements, as does Firefox 14.

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focus, however, does work, as does DOMCharacterDataModified in most browsers (though notably not IE < 9). See http://jsfiddle.net/UuYQH/112/

By the way, contenteditable is not a Boolean attribute: it requires a value, which should be one of "true", "false", "inherit" and the empty string (which is equivalent to "true").