I am trying to have some functionality on change of a textbox which is readonly. But when I am trying to update the textbox using javascript, the change event is not firing
Well you have to do this way: http://jsfiddle.net/kmvSV/1/
$(document).ready(function () { $('input[id$=_txtTest]').bind("change", function () { alert($(this).val()); }); $('button').bind("click", function () { $('input[id$=_txtTest]').val('hello').trigger('change'); }); });