jQuery 'input' event

Question

I\'ve never heard of an event in jQuery called input till I saw this jsfiddle.

Do you know why it\'s working? Is it an alias for keyup or s

Answer 1

As claustrofob said, oninput is supported for IE9+.

However, "The oninput event is buggy in Internet Explorer 9. It is not fired when characters are deleted from a text field through the user interface only when characters are inserted. Although the onpropertychange event is supported in Internet Explorer 9, but similarly to the oninput event, it is also buggy, it is not fired on deletion.

Since characters can be deleted in several ways (Backspace and Delete keys, CTRL + X, Cut and Delete command in context menu), there is no good solution to detect all changes. If characters are deleted by the Delete command of the context menu, the modification cannot be detected in JavaScript in Internet Explorer 9."

I have good results binding to both input and keyup (and keydown, if you want it to fire in IE while holding down the Backspace key).