What event fires when user uses Alt & numeric key pad to enter text into a textbox

Rob Nicholson

In our application, we've added a bit of JavaScript that updates a title as
the user types into a textbox. To trigger this, we patch into the "onkeyup"
and "onpaste" events:

FirstName.Attributes("onkeyup") = "ChangeTitle();"
FirstName.Attributes("onpaste") = "ChangeTitle();"

This works a treat but neither of these events fire if the user happens to
enter a foreign character using the standard Windows ALT key plus numberic
keypad, e.g. Alt-0225 generates "á".

Anyone got any idea which, if, any event to handle for this situation?

Thanks, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #1

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Marina

what about the event for when text changes, I think 'onchange' or
'ontextchange' or something like that

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In our application, we've added a bit of JavaScript that updates a title
as
the user types into a textbox. To trigger this, we patch into the
"onkeyup"
and "onpaste" events:

FirstName.Attributes("onkeyup") = "ChangeTitle();"
FirstName.Attributes("onpaste") = "ChangeTitle();"

This works a treat but neither of these events fire if the user happens to
enter a foreign character using the standard Windows ALT key plus numberic
keypad, e.g. Alt-0225 generates "á".

Anyone got any idea which, if, any event to handle for this situation?

Thanks, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #2

Phillip Williams

"Rob Nicholson" wrote:

In our application, we've added a bit of JavaScript that updates a title as
the user types into a textbox. To trigger this, we patch into the "onkeyup"
and "onpaste" events:

FirstName.Attributes("onkeyup") = "ChangeTitle();"
FirstName.Attributes("onpaste") = "ChangeTitle();"

This works a treat but neither of these events fire if the user happens to
enter a foreign character using the standard Windows ALT key plus numberic
keypad, e.g. Alt-0225 generates "Ã¡".

Anyone got any idea which, if, any event to handle for this situation?

OnKeyPress

<html><body>
<SCRIPT>
function fnKeyPress()
{
oFirstNameCopy.value += String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
}
</SCRIPT>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First Name</td>
<td>
<INPUT ID="oFirstName" TYPE="text" onKeyPress="fnKeyPress();">
</td>
<td>
Copy of First Name
</td>
<td>
<INPUT ID="oFirstNameCopy" TYPE="text" >
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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Nov 19 '05 #3

Rob Nicholson

> In our application, we've added a bit of JavaScript that updates a title
as

the user types into a textbox. To trigger this, we patch into the "onkeyup" and "onpaste" events:

FirstName.Attributes("onkeyup") = "ChangeTitle();"
FirstName.Attributes("onpaste") = "ChangeTitle();"

This works a treat but neither of these events fire if the user happens to
enter a foreign character using the standard Windows ALT key plus numberic
keypad, e.g. Alt-0225 generates "á".

Anyone got any idea which, if, any event to handle for this situation?

This was posted with a MSDN friendly email address - isn't somebody from
Microsoft supposed to comment?

Thanks, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #4

Rob Nicholson

> what about the event for when text changes, I think 'onchange' or

'ontextchange' or something like that

onchange will fire but only when the text box looses focus. However, I think
this will have to be a workaround for now.

Thanks, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #5

Rob Nicholson

> OnKeyPress

Are you Bobby Moore? :-) I'll check - we're handling onkeyup but will try
onkeypress.

Thanks, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #6

Bob Barrows [MVP]

Rob Nicholson wrote:

This was posted with a MSDN friendly email address - isn't somebody
from Microsoft supposed to comment?

I think they only comment when the post has not received a useful reply.

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Nov 19 '05 #7

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Hi Rob,

Frankly speaking, I think other community members' suggestion has been very
complete. For the Alt- number scenario, neither keydown or keyup(keypress)
will work. Currently the only workaround is the "onchange" event though it
only fire when the focus leave the entry field. Seems we are limited to
these clientside events now.

Thanks,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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Nov 19 '05 #8

Rob Nicholson

> I think they only comment when the post has not received a useful reply.

Hmm :-) onkeypress doesn't trigger when ALT input option is used. We'll put
up with onchange firing when the user moves focus outside of the textbox.

Cheers, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #9

Rob Nicholson

> Frankly speaking, I think other community members' suggestion has been
very

complete. For the Alt- number scenario, neither keydown or keyup(keypress)

I'm just trying to understand what level of support I get via the newsgroups
as a MSDN subscriber. To be frank myself, the other community members could
have given completely false information :-) I realise they haven't in this
instance and that in a majority of time the answers are accurate and
informative. But I would have hoped for that clarification by a Microsoft
support person.

As an example, somebody could have said "if you use VB script instead, you
can capture this event". Sounds perfectly reasonable doesn't it.

I'm not trying to be awkward but this newsgroup is completely open and
therefore any "stamp of approval" via a Microsoft support person is
welcomed.

Cheers, Rob.

Nov 19 '05 #10

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Thanks for your followup and the feedback,

Sure, we'll be willing to post our suggestions even if sometimes community
members have provided some general ideas. Anyway, I still think community
and MVP would be the main energy of newsgroup :-)

Thanks again for your posting.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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| > Frankly speaking, I think other community members' suggestion has been
| very
| > complete. For the Alt- number scenario, neither keydown or
keyup(keypress)
|
| I'm just trying to understand what level of support I get via the
newsgroups
| as a MSDN subscriber. To be frank myself, the other community members
could
| have given completely false information :-) I realise they haven't in this
| instance and that in a majority of time the answers are accurate and
| informative. But I would have hoped for that clarification by a Microsoft
| support person.
|
| As an example, somebody could have said "if you use VB script instead, you
| can capture this event". Sounds perfectly reasonable doesn't it.
|
| I'm not trying to be awkward but this newsgroup is completely open and
| therefore any "stamp of approval" via a Microsoft support person is
| welcomed.
|
| Cheers, Rob.
|
|
|

Nov 19 '05 #11

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