jquery 1.4.1 change() on textarea not working in IE 8

Question

So my jquery (1.4.1) code is something like this:

$(document).ready(function () {  
    $("#Pattern").focus();  
    $("textarea").change(function () { Match(); });  
    ...  
    var Match = function () {
             ...
          };  
  })

Pattern is a textarea. And all works fine everywhere - except IE 8. And behavior of IE 8 is weird - it doesn't work sometimes for the first time and seems to work later. By not working I mean when I type something in textarea and lose focus - Match function is not called. I looked around but all I tried was in vain.

EDIT: solution

So, nothing worked and I had to do it by hand using .focusout event

    var previousPattern = '';
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#Pattern").focus();
        $("#Pattern").focusout(
                function () {
                   if ($("#Pattern").val() != previousPattern) {
                      previousPattern = $("#Pattern").val();
                      Match();
                   }
                });
       ...
    }

And now it works as expected.

Note: You don't need the anonymous function just to call a function, just use: `$("textarea").change(Match);`. — Guffa, Apr 03 '11 at 19:19
[can't reproduce](http://jsfiddle.net/Vsnmm/) please give more code so we can see what might be causing this.. — Shadow The GPT Wizard, Apr 03 '11 at 19:24
yep saw the problem now couldn't find anything unusual in the code.. try adding `alert("match");` as the first line of the function maybe it's getting executed and fails before changing the text? — Shadow The GPT Wizard, Apr 04 '11 at 08:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Twitter seems to use "input" and "change" - it's non-standard. Try binding the element via .bind() and check, if it is really bound.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Apr 03 '11 at 19:29

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didn't work. Looks like change() is just a shortcut for this. – ren Apr 04 '11 at 20:46
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents – buschtoens Apr 05 '11 at 12:52

jquery 1.4.1 change() on textarea not working in IE 8

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