text input onChange not firing

I have come across a problem where if a user enters the same text into
a text input after the value has been programmatically changed, the
onChange event does not fire for the second change.

The following code demonstrates this:

<html>
<body>
<input type=text value='yyy' onchange="this.value='xxx'"></input>
<input type=text value='2'></input>
</body>
</html>
- Change the value of the first text box to (eg) 'aaa', and tab away.
'aaa' will change to 'xxx'.
- Tab back to the first text box, and again enter 'aaa'. Tab away and
the text stays as 'aaa'. The onChange event does not fire. This has
also been confirmed using .net studio to break into similar code.

Is this a known bug, and is there a work-around for it?

Thanks

MS

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Fred Oz

ms wrote:

I have come across a problem where if a user enters the same text into
a text input after the value has been programmatically changed, the
onChange event does not fire for the second change.
Which browser? Worked every time for me in Safari 1.0.3, Firefox 1.0
and IE 5.2 on Mac.

Perhaps you mean some version of IE on some version of Windows?

[...] Is this a known bug, and is there a work-around for it?

Use a real browser? ;-)

--
Fred

Jul 23 '05 #2

msmsmsms782

Fred Oz wrote:

ms wrote:
I have come across a problem where if a user enters the same text into a text input after the value has been programmatically changed, the
onChange event does not fire for the second change.
Which browser? Worked every time for me in Safari 1.0.3, Firefox

1.0 and IE 5.2 on Mac.

Perhaps you mean some version of IE on some version of Windows?

[...]
Is this a known bug, and is there a work-around for it?

Use a real browser? ;-)

--
Fred

Jul 23 '05 #3

msmsmsms782

IE 6 on XP Pro SP1

Jul 23 '05 #4

RobB

http://ewbi.blogs.com/develops/2004/...nging_a_t.html

Jul 23 '05 #5

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