Raise onchange event in FireFox

[daokfella]

I need to raise the onchange event and Firefox is giving me some
grief. I hear fireEvent is buggy with some events. Is that true?

My code is simply this:
targetTextbox.fireEvent("onChange");

Works fine in IE but not in FF. Is there a compatible equivalent in FF?

 

[Peter Michaux]

I need to raise the onchange event and Firefox is giving me some
grief. I hear fireEvent is buggy with some events. Is that true?

My code is simply this:
targetTextbox.fireEvent("onChange");

Works fine in IE but not in FF. Is there a compatible equivalent in FF?

Firefox uses the DOM2 synthetic events which doesn't have fireEvent()

Try something like this for Firefox

var e = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents');
e.initEvent('change', false, false);
targetTextbox.dispatchEvent(e);

Flanagan's book covers this stuff well (but not the browser bugs)
<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ3_1>

Yes they synthetic events are buggy. I just had a problem with firing
click events a day ago. Firefox won't actually follow a link in this
situation.

Peter