How to handle the onpropertychange
for a textbox in Firefox using JavaScript?
Below is an example:
var headerBGColorTextBox = document.getElementById('<%= tbHeaderBGColor.ClientID %>');
if (headerBGColorTextBox != null) {
headerBGColorTextBox.pluggedElement = document.getElementById('<%= trHeaderBG.ClientID %>');
headerBGColorTextBox.onpropertychange = function() {
alert('function called');
if (event.propertyName == 'style.backgroundColor' && event.srcElement.pluggedElement != null)
alert(event.propertyName);
event.srcElement.pluggedElement.style.backgroundColor = event.srcElement.style.backgroundColor;
};
}
There are two ways to mimic the onpropertychange event, Mutation events as mentioned above that should work equally across modern browsers and the "object.watch" non-standard method that will provide support for old versions of FF < 3.
See documentation on MDC.
Object.watch
Mutation events
It appears as if the onpropertychange
event is IE Specific: http://www.aptana.com/reference/html/api/HTML.event.onpropertychange.html.
However, with that said, Firefox, at least 3.0.10 does support an event called "DOMAttrModified". The following is a snippet of how it works:
document.body.addEventListener("DOMAttrModified", function () { console.log ("Args: %o", arguments); }, false);
document.body.id = "Testing";
Where console.log
is the assuming the Firefox extension Firebug is installed.
onpropertychange
is non-standard. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536956
The following code works:
var foo = '<%= tbHeaderBGColor.ClientID %>';
function changetext()
{
alert('function called');
if (event.propertyName == 'style.backgroundColor' && event.srcElement.pluggedElement != null)
alert(event.propertyName);
event.srcElement.pluggedElement.style.backgroundColor = event.srcElement.style.backgroundColor;
}
if (!!document.addEventListener)
{
document.getElementById(foo).addEventListener("DOMAttrModified", changetext, false);
}
else
{
document.getElementById(foo).addBehavior("foo.htc");
document.getElementById(foo).attachEvent("onpropertychange", changetext);
}
DOM Mutation Events