Onchange event will not fire

[Steve Dyke]

I have the following code that pulls up a custom calendar control. The user clicks a date and the calling form is changed but the Onchange event does not fire.

<c:when test="${rValue == '3'}">
									<TD width="183" align="center">
										<INPUT type="text" size="10" value="${itemArrayList}" name="${status.count},${status2.count}" onclick="javascript:getCalendar(this.name);return false;" onchange="javascript:datehaschanged(this.name);return false;">
																		
									</TD>

									
								</c:when>

[Bear Bibeault]

The onchange event will only be triggered if the value is changed by user input. It will not be called if the value is changed under script control.

By the way, what's with the "javascript:" prefixes?

[Bear Bibeault]

And please make sure your code is well formated for display. Your post is barely legible.

[Steve Dyke]

Bear Bibeault wrote:The onchange event will only be triggered if the value is changed by user input. It will not be called if the value is changed under script control.

By the way, what's with the "javascript:" prefixes?

Somewhere along the way I picked up examples of the events having the javascript: prefix. If it is not necessary I will stop doing it.

Is there a remedy for my onchange situation?

[Bear Bibeault]

Steve Dyke wrote:Somewhere along the way I picked up examples of the events having the javascript: prefix. If it is not necessary I will stop doing it.

Yes, stop. That's only necessary when putting script in an href (not recommended).

Is there a remedy for my onchange situation?

Depends upon what you are trying to do.

Again, please fix your posted code to not cause the window to span a few football fields.

[Himanshu Kansal]

the onchange event would fire ONLY when the field loses focus after editing of its value. Here it does not seem to lose focus.
If you can edit the getCalendar method, you can call the textbox's onblur event bu that would be totally silly coz if you can do that... you can actually put your code of onchange there. Makes more sense.

Regards

[Steve Dyke]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Depends upon what you are trying to do.

On my page I have several table rows of data. One prticular column holds a text box with date in it, another column holds a value that indicates wheather or not the row has been modified. When the user clicks the date text box a calendar form pops up for them to select a date from. The calendar form closes and changes the value of the text box which called it.

Now my challenge is to set the modify column cell to 1 if the date changes.

[Eric Pascarello]

Can you modify the calendar code?

Eric

[Steve Dyke]

Eric Pascarello wrote:Can you modify the calendar code?

Eric

Yes. I got it working by having the Calendar code fire a script back on the calling page.