Comments on: Capturing AutoFill as a Change Event

By: Eugen

Eugen — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:12:32 +0000

If you don’t want all inputs on the form to be affected, you can write something like this:
$("p.gray input").listenForChange();
After this the only thing you need is to change listenForChange() function not to parse all inputs on the form. This can really mess thing up for you.

So instead of
jquery_object.filter(":input").add(":input", jquery_object).focus(
you should have just
jquery_object.focus(
as this jquery_object already contains filtered inputs you need.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:11:58 +0000

Thank you!

I had a single input-box form, so I commented out lines 28-31.
Works a treat!

Cheers,

Andrew.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:57:06 +0000

Thanks for the help; great idea.

@Glenn

You could add

clearInterval(intervalID);

at the end of the jquery filter. That way, once something has changed (auto-fill) it would stop listening.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:33:42 +0000

Good solution, but doesn’t this make the browser work a lot harder? Is there any discernable additional CPU activity when this script is used?

This can be a real problem for mobile devices or where there’s a lot of browser windows & tabs open.

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:48:13 +0000

Thank you! Works well with Douglas Neiner’s in-field labels plugin.

I decided to disable the check for a field being focused. This solved the problem of the label remaining visible after pasting text using the context menu or when dragged.