oninput in IE9 doesn't fire when we hit BACKSPACE / DEL / do CUT

Question

What\'s the cleanest solution we use to overcome the problem that IE9 doesn\'t fire the input event when we hit BACKSPACE / DEL / do CUT?

By cleanest I mean code

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The oninput event fires for backspace, del, etc in Chrome and FF but not IE9.

However, that OnKeyUp does actually fire backspace, del etc in IE9 but not Chrome FF, so the opposite.

I added a specific IE javascript file named ieOverrides.js:

Then in the js file I switched the event handlers:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#search").off('input');
    $("#search").on('keyup', function(){
        search(this.value);
    });
});

Hope that helps.