Topic awaiting preservation: <select onChange... with keyboard in Firefox etc (Page 1 of 1)

I've been working on a page that uses a <select> with onChange to update the contents of a <div> as different <option>s are selected.

All's well until I use the keyboard in Firefox, then I have to press Return to trigger the onChange. I can see that that's perfect for most uses, like a page redirect, but for once, I actually want this to operate like IE to trigger the onChange as I scroll up and down the <options>s with the arrow keys.

Anyone know if this possible in Firefox etc? I suspect not.

Hiegh ho... Hiegh ho... it's over to javascript this does

*wanders off whistling to push the 'move thread' button*


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Hmm... technically just scrolling within a select should not fire the onChange event. According to the spec "The onchange event occurs when a control loses the input focus and its value has been modified since gaining focus. This attribute applies to the following elements: INPUT, SELECT, and TEXTAREA."

You could emulate this functionality by capturing keypress events when the select has focus.



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