Event fired when clearing text input on IE10 with

Question

On chrome, the "search" event is fired on search inputs when user clicks the clear button.

Is there a way to capture the same event in javascript on Internet Explorer 10?

Answer 1

The only solution I finally found:

// There are 2 events fired on input element when clicking on the clear button:
// mousedown and mouseup.
$("input").bind("mouseup", function(e){
  var $input = $(this),
      oldValue = $input.val();

  if (oldValue == "") return;

  // When this event is fired after clicking on the clear button
  // the value is not cleared yet. We have to wait for it.
  setTimeout(function(){
    var newValue = $input.val();

    if (newValue == ""){
      // Gotcha
      $input.trigger("cleared");
    }
  }, 1);
});

Answer 2

Why not

$("input").bind('input propertychange', function() {
    if (this.value == ""){
      $input.trigger("cleared");
    }
});

Answer 3

I realize this question has been answered, but the accepted answer did not work in our situation. IE10 did not recognize/fire the $input.trigger("cleared"); statement.

Our final solution replaced that statement with a keydown event on the ENTER key (code 13). For posterity, this is what worked in our case:

$('input[type="text"]').bind("mouseup", function(event) {
    var $input = $(this);
    var oldValue = $input.val();
    if (oldValue == "") {
        return;
    }
    setTimeout(function() {
        var newValue = $input.val();
        if (newValue == "") {
            var enterEvent = $.Event("keydown");
            enterEvent.which = 13;
            $input.trigger(enterEvent);
        }
    }, 1);
});

In addition, we wanted to apply this binding only to the "search" inputs, not every input on the page. Naturally, IE made this difficult as well... although we had coded <input type="search"...>, IE rendered them as type="text". That's why the jQuery selector references the type="text".

Cheers!

Answer 4

for my asp.net server control

<asp:TextBox ID="tbSearchName" runat="server" oninput="jsfun_tbSearchName_onchange();"></asp:TextBox>

js

function jsfun_tbSearchName_onchange() {
    if (objTbNameSearch.value.trim() == '')
            objBTSubmitSearch.setAttribute('disabled', true);
        else
            objBTSubmitSearch.removeAttribute('disabled');
        return false;
}

ref

MSDN onchange event - tested in IE10.

... or to hide with CSS :

input[type=text]::-ms-clear { display: none; }

Answer 5

Use input instead. It works with the same behaviour under all the browsers.

$(some-input).on("input", function() { 
    // update panel
});

Answer 6

The oninput event fires with this.value set to an empty string. This solved the problem for me, since I want to execute the same action whether they clear the search box with the X or by backspacing. This works in IE 10 only.