Listening for pasted input

A lot of the input forms I work on defaults the "Submit" button to disabled. Added to client side validation, this default usually prevents the user from submitting forms without required fields. I usually attach onkeyup events to each of the form fields to see whether I should enable the "Submit" button for a particular form.

However, onkeyup doesn't catch everything. If the user pastes input into a field using their mouse, onkeyup doesn't catch that event. So, the user is left with an input field which appears filled, but the "Submit" button remains disabled.

The solution is pretty simple. You can attach something like this to your input fields:

<input type="text" dojoAttachEvent="onkeyup: checkSubmitButton, oninput: checkSubmitButton, onpaste: checkSubmitButton">

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