Javascript Events: Getting notified of changes in an <input> control value

Question

I have the following problem:

I have an HTML textbox () whose contents are modified by a script I cannot touch (it is my page

Answer 1

I had to modify the YUI datable paginator control once in the manner advised by Dan. It's brute force, but it worked in solving my problem. That is, locate the method writing to the field, copy its code and add a statement firing the change event and in your code just handle that change event. You just have to override the original function with that new version of it. Polling, while working fine seems to me a much more resource consuming solution.