[Javascript] onChange event not firing at all

[David Dorward]

On 20 Oct 2010, at 17:49, Andre Polykanine wrote:

> Here's a simple form. For unknown reason the onChange event does fire
> only when the Tab key is pressed (as if it was an onBlur handler).

Because that is what is supposed to happen:

    "the event is deferred until the element loses focus."

        — http://api.jquery.com/change/

Use a keypress event if you want it to happen on a keypress.

> More than that, the remaining chars number is increasing only by one.

$(this).length is the number of elements in the jQuery selector - which is always going to be 1.

You want something more along the lines of:

remaining = max_length = $(this).val().length;

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