Detect Textbox Field Change jQuery - javascript

I have a text box that accepts integers, and I need it to run a function that will use the text box's input, as soon as a user inputs numbers into the field.
The problem here is that keyUp() will detect each and every input. So if I type 23, it will fire once for 2 and once for 3. I only need it to run when the input is complete.
Is there a way to do this, without losing focus and without using a timer that will keep checking the text box input every while using setInterval?

Look like you want to be notified when the user stops typing. The following code can be used as a starting point, it calls bufferedKeyUp 300 ms after the user stops typing. http://jsfiddle.net/mendesjuan/VTMEe/
$(function() {
// Creates a handler that will wait until the event hasn't fired for a period
// before it fires the actual event handler
function createBuffered(fun, delay) {
var timer;
return function() {
clearTimeout(timer);
var args = arguments;
var me = this;
timer = setTimeout(function() {
fun.apply(me, args);
}, delay);
}
}
$('#in').keyup( createBuffered(function(){
console.log('change');
}, 300));
});​
Ext-JS has a nice simple way to do this http://jsfiddle.net/mendesjuan/DYkmU/1/
Ext.get('myid').on('keyup', function() {
console.log('change');
}, null, {buffer: 300});

Why not test the textbox contents after they're changed, after all that's when input is complete isn't it?
If the result is not okay, you can always clear and focus the textbox so the user has to enter valid data.
Something like:
$("textbox").change( function () {
if (someTestForGoodData) {
handleTheGoodData();
} else {
$(this).focus();
alert($(this) + " has bad data!");
}
})

$('input').on('input propertychange', function() {
$('#output').html($(this).val().length + ' characters');
});
From this answer.

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jQuery button click once do this, click twice restart

I would like a button to turn a text element to a certain string and then restart once it is off and make it blank again.
I tried this:
$('#checkbox5').on('toggle', function() {
$("#texty5").text("Video/film");
$('#checkbox5').on('toggle', function() {
$("#texty5").text("");
});
});
But it only works the one time you press and unpress it. Thanks!
You should probably only define one "toggle" event callback, and handle both scenarios.
$('#checkbox5').on('toggle', function() {
if ($("#texty5").text() === "") {
$("#texty5").text("Video/film");
} else {
$("#texty5").text("");
}
});

lostfocus in 3 elements jquery

I have this code in my page
$("#ddlBirthdayDay,#ddlBirthdayMonth,#ddlBirthdayYear").change(function () {
$("form").validate().element("#ddlBirthdayYear");
});
I need to change it to: I haven't the focus in the three input $("#ddlBirthdayDay,#ddlBirthdayMonth,#ddlBirthdayYear"), I validate the element in the form.
How can I do this in jquery??
If all of your elements are in the same wrapper you could use focusout.
http://api.jquery.com/focusout/
Together with the :focus selector.
http://api.jquery.com/focus-selector/
var focusTimer = null;
$("form").on("focusout", function(){
clearTimeout(focusTimer);
focusTimer = setTimeout(function(){
var focusedElements = $("#ddlBirthdayDay,#ddlBirthdayMonth,#ddlBirthdayYear").filter(':focus');
alert(focusedElements.length);
}, 50);
});
Unfortunately you would need the set timeout as tabbing through the input fields would cause wrong results otherwise.
jsfiddle Demo
You can add an attribute to each element to say it lost focus. Then when all elements have lost focus, fire the validate event for each:
var $elems = $("#ddlBirthdayDay,#ddlBirthdayMonth,#ddlBirthdayYear");
$elems.blur(function () {
// Add a flag to this element to say it's lost focus
$(this).attr("data-blurred", "true");
console.log("blurred");
// If the number of elements in total equals the number with the blurred flag...
if($elems.filter("[data-blurred]").length === $elems.length) {
// Iterate over all the original elements and fire the validate event
$elems.each(function() {
$("form").validate().element($(this));
});
}
});
Here is a fiddle.
Sample code:
$(function(){
$('#a,#b,#c').on('blur',function(e){
setTimeout(function(){
if (!$('#a,#b,#c').is(':focus')) {
alert('Lost focus on all controls');
}
}, 50);
});
});
Take a look at my demo: Detect if controls lost focus

Javascript oninput(setTimeout 2s) / onchange - fire that comes as first

Hi I have a function Save that's triggered onchange event or oninput after 2s timeout.
Problem is that function Save is triggered twice in this scenario:
type something
wait 2s
oninput fires save event
click out of input
onchange fires save event
I need save only once depending on what happens first. If user types something and immediately leaves input, then save via onchange and oninput timeout should be cancelled. But if types something and waits 2s then save via oninput and onchange shouldn't be triggered.
I need some simple and clean solution. Does it exist? Thanks :)
edit:
here is my code http://jsfiddle.net/TQ9KR/
jQuery('#text').on('change', function() {
save();
});
jQuery('#text').on('input', function(){
clearTimeout(this.delayer);
var context = this;
this.delayer = setTimeout(function () {
jQuery(context).trigger('change');
}, 2000);
});
function save(){
jQuery('#a').text('saved on ' + new Date().getTime());
}
You could set a flag to indicate whether save is needed:
jQuery('#text').on('change', function() {
save();
});
jQuery('#text').on('input', function(){
jQuery(this).data('unsaved', true);
clearTimeout(this.delayer);
var context = this;
this.delayer = setTimeout(function () {
jQuery(context).trigger('change');
}, 2000);
});
function save(){
if (jQuery('#text').data('unsaved')) {
jQuery('#a').text('saved on ' + new Date().getTime());
jQuery('#text').data('unsaved', false);
}
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/TQ9KR/1/
Update: for your requirement of dealing also with changes to the field value from other JavaScript functions you could do the following instead (keeping your original 'change' and 'input' handlers:
function save(){
var $text = jQuery('#text');
if ($text.data('prevVal') != $text.val()) {
jQuery('#a').text('saved on ' + new Date().getTime());
$text.data('prevVal', $text.val());
}
}
That is, only save if the current value of the field is different to whatever was saved last time (where the first time around it will automatically be different since there will be no previously saved value).
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/TQ9KR/2/
Could you not add a data attribute, something like data-hasChanged and check that?
well honestly only cleen solution that i can think of is to initialize global boolean variable that indicates has save hapen
var hasSaveHapen = false;
and now when any of those functions try to save use this:
if(!hasSaveHapen){
do your save action
hasSaveHapen = false;
}

Do not fire one event if already fired another

I have a code like this:
$('#foo').on('click', function(e) {
//do something
});
$('form input').on('change', function(e) {
//do some other things
));
First and second events do actually the same things with the same input field, but in different way. The problem is, that when I click the #foo element - form change element fires as well. I need form change to fire always when the content of input is changing, but not when #foo element is clicked.
That's the question )). How to do this?
Here is the code on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/QhXyj/1/
What happens is that onChange fires when the focus leaves the #input. In your case, this coincides with clicking on the button. Try pressing Tab, THEN clicking on the button.
To handle this particular case, one solution is to delay the call to the change event enough check if the button got clicked in the meantime. In practice 100 milisecond worked. Here's the code:
$().ready(function() {
var stopTheChangeBecauseTheButtonWasClicked = false;
$('#button').on('click', function(e) {
stopTheChangeBecauseTheButtonWasClicked = true;
$('#wtf').html("I don't need to change #input in this case");
});
$('#input').on('change', function(e) {
var self = this;
setTimeout(function doTheChange() {
if (!stopTheChangeBecauseTheButtonWasClicked) {
$(self).val($(self).val() + ' - changed!');
} else {
stopTheChangeBecauseTheButtonWasClicked = false;
}
}, 100);
});
});
And the fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/dandv/QhXyj/11/
It's only natural that a change event on a blurred element fires before the clicked element is focused. If you don't want to use a timeout ("do something X ms after the input was changed unless in between a button was clicked", as proposed by Dan) - and timeouts are ugly - you only could go doing those actions twice. After the input is changed, save its state and do something. If then - somewhen later - the button is clicked, retrieve the saved state and do the something similar. I guess this is what you actually wanted for your UI behaviour, not all users are that fast. If one leaves the input (e.g. by pressing Tab), and then later activates the button "independently", do you really want to execute both actions?
var inputval = null, changedval = null;
$('form input').on('change', function(e) {
inputval = this.value;
// do some things with it and save them to
changedval = …
// you might use the value property of the input itself
));
$('#foo').on('click', function(e) {
// do something with inputval
});
$('form …').on('any other action') {
// you might want to invalidate the cache:
inputval = changedval;
// so that from now on a click operates with the new value
});
$(function() {
$('#button').on('click', function() {
//use text() not html() here
$('#wtf').text("I don't need to change #input in this case");
});
//fire on blur, that is when user types and presses tab
$('#input').on('blur', function() {
alert("clicked"); //this doesn't fire when you click button
$(this).val($(this).val()+' - changed!');
});
});​
Here's the Fiddle
$('form input').on('change', function(e) {
// don't do the thing if the input is #foo
if ( $(this).attrib('id') == 'foo' ) return;
//do some other things
));
UPDATE
How about this:
$().ready(function() {
$('#button').on('click', function(e) {
$('#wtf').html("I don't need to change #input in this case");
});
$('#input').on('change', function(e) {
// determine id #input is in focus
if ( ! $(this).is(":focus") ) return;
$(this).val($(this).val()+' - changed!');
});
});

jQuery - char counter doesn't work with paste event

I wrote a jQuery character counter, it works when I type, but not when text is pasted.
The function is executed upon paste, but count doesn't change. I am not sure if val() function is correct or really in synch with DOM. Any ideas?
counter = function () {
$j("strong#status-field-char-counter").text($j("#Panel1messagesmessage").val().length);
alert('event');
};
$j("textarea").keyup(counter);
$j("textarea").bind('paste', counter);
$j("#Panel1messagesmessage").bind('copy', counter);
$j("#Panel1messagesmessage").bind('delete', counter);
textarea contents can be changed in a number of ways, instead of trying to catch them all, simply install a routine that checks the content every 0.5 second, like
$(function() {
window.charCount = 0;
setInterval(function() {
var c = $("textarea").val().length;
if(c != window.charCount) {
window.charCount = c;
$("span").html(window.charCount);
}
}, 500);
})
I usually use keyup in combination with change
The change event fires when the textbox loses focus, but only if the value was modified since it received focus.
Quick play about:
$("#textarea").change(function() {
$("#status-field-char-counter").text($("#textarea").val().length);
}).keyup(function() {
$("#status-field-char-counter").text($("#textarea").val().length);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p id="status-field-char-counter">here</p>
<input id="textarea" type="text" />

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