Comments on: Using JQuery ‘data’ feature to detect form changes

By: Dan Hayes

Dan Hayes — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:38 +0000

Not sure exactly what you mean. However, if you are programmatically updating values in text input control then you should be able to call handleFormChanged() directly from the javascript.

By: hlaingtun

hlaingtun — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:50:26 +0000

How to detect changes that programatically through value to input textbox ,?

By: Dan Hayes

Dan Hayes — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:39:47 +0000

The paste event is important if you copy something to the clipboard and CTL-V to paste (or right click paste) to a textarea or text box. Otherwise, you run the risk of a change to the form not being processed by the handleFormChanged() function.

By: JGarrido

JGarrido — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:47:55 +0000

The code looks pretty decent, but what good is the bind to the ‘paste’ event if there is no way to effectively trigger it appropriately?

By: Priya

Priya — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:46:52 +0000

Very nice article. Pretty useful. Everything works! Thanks

By: Dan Hayes

Dan Hayes — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:04:28 +0000

Select list should work fine. Events are captured using change event:

$(‘#my_form .editable’).bind(‘change paste’, function() {
handleFormChanged();
});

Double check your form select element to be sure you have assigned the “editable” class attribute.

By: kiran

kiran — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:39:18 +0000

Hi,

Its a greate help. It sloved my problem but for select list it is not working.

how to do it for slect list.

Thanks
C.Kiran Kumar

By: Dan Hayes

Dan Hayes — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:05:05 +0000

I assume you mean changes to [hidden] field values made via javascript. Otherwise, how would a user directly change a hidden field? It is my understanding that modifications to the DOM element made in javascript do NOT trigger events bound via jQuery. I just tested this myself.

Perhaps I am not understanding your question.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:37 +0000

I only want to detect changes in fields that are not hidden – how would I do that?

By: Nora Brown

Nora Brown — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:58:17 +0000

Thanks for this, it’s exactly what I was looking for, to use in a theme for the CMS Textpattern, to show whether changes to an article have been saved or not. Isn’t JQuery the bomb?