Mozilla / Firefox equivalent to IE onpaste for textareas

Mark Szlazak wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
> IE's onpaste event for a textarea?[/color]

I should add that using onchange presents a problem since the event
doesn't fire until the textarea looses focus. Whatever solutions that
exist need to work like onpaste without the focus issues of onchange.

Mark Szlazak wrote:
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> Mark Szlazak wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
>>IE's onpaste event for a textarea?[/color]
>
>[/color]

There is no equivalent to onpaste event for a textarea, as far as I
understand your post.
"Fires on the target object when the user pastes data, transferring the
data from the system clipboard to the document."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/...nts/onpaste.asp
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> I should add that using onchange presents a problem since the event
> doesn't fire until the textarea looses focus. Whatever solutions that
> exist need to work like onpaste without the focus issues of onchange.
>[/color]

Maybe if you could provide an url showing how your script works for
MSIE, I could have a look at it and maybe propose an alternative.

DU
--
The site said to use Internet Explorer 5 or better... so I switched to
Mozilla 1.7.6 :)

DU wrote:[color=blue]
> Maybe if you could provide an url showing how your script works for
> MSIE, I could have a look at it and maybe propose an alternative.
>
> DU[/color]

Thanks for the offer DU but I do have alternatives. However, I need to
seriously consider this particular option if a viable one exists.

Mark Szlazak wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
> IE's onpaste event for a textarea?[/color]

You could try to use
<textarea oninput="..."
with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted but
also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it is
the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when
text is pasted into a text control.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin Honnen wrote:[color=blue]
> Mark Szlazak wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent[/color][/color]
to[color=blue][color=green]
> > IE's onpaste event for a textarea?[/color]
>
> You could try to use
> <textarea oninput="..."
> with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted[/color]
but[color=blue]
> also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it[/color]
is[color=blue]
> the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when[/color]
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> text is pasted into a text control.
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/[/color]

That will work just fine. Thanks.

Martin Honnen wrote:[color=blue]
> Mark Szlazak wrote:[color=green]
>> Is there anything for Mozilla or Firefox that would be equivalent to
>> IE's onpaste event for a textarea?[/color]
>
> You could try to use
> <textarea oninput="..."
> with Mozilla, of course it doesn't fire only for text being pasted but
> also for other text manipulation like cutting text but at I think it is
> the only event handler in Mozilla and HTML documents being fired when
> text is pasted into a text control.[/color]

frm.ctlName.addEventListener("DOMCharacterDataModified",
function(e){myEventHandler(e);}, false);

This method works, but it has several minor bugs which I logged at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285272

Also, note that if you do something like select the 5 in 54321
and then press 6 (changing the text to 64321) you will fire twice:
The first time the value will be 4321,
and the second firing will have 64321

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

ok

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