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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 27384

Listen to changes within a DIV and act accordingly

I have a function that grabs an XML document and transforms it according to an XSL document. It then places the result into a div with the id laneconfigdisplay. What I want to do is, separate to the transformation logic, setup a jQuery change event for that div so I can tell when it has changed, and run some jQuery code.

I have tried the following, but it does not work!

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $('#laneconfigdisplay').change(function() {
        alert('woo');
    });
    //Do XML / XSL transformation here
});

<!-- HTML code here -->
<div id="laneconfigdisplay"></div>

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 45

Views: 115024

Answers (7)

Mohd Abdul Mujib
Mohd Abdul Mujib

Reputation: 13928

Though the event DOMSubtreeModified is deprecated, its working as of now, so for any makeshift projects you can use it as following. 

$("body").on('DOMSubtreeModified', "#mydiv", function() {
    alert('changed');
});

In the long term though, you'll have to use the MutationObserver API.

Upvotes: 8

Kingshuk Deb
Kingshuk Deb

Reputation: 1720

Try this 

$('#D25,#E37,#E31,#F37,#E16,#E40,#F16,#F40,#E41,#F41').bind('DOMNodeInserted DOMNodeRemoved',function(){
          // your code;
       });

Do not use this. This may crash the page.

$('mydiv').bind("DOMSubtreeModified",function(){
  alert('changed');
});

Upvotes: 1

galengodis
galengodis

Reputation: 933

If possible you can change the div to an textarea and use .change().

Another solution could be use a hidden textarea and update the textarea same time as you update the div. Then use .change() on the hidden textarea.

You can also use http://www.jacklmoore.com/autosize/ to make the text area act more like a div.

<style>
.hidden{
display:none
}
</style>

<textarea class="hidden" rows="4" cols="50">

</textarea>


$("#hiddentextarea").change(function() {

alert('Textarea changed');

})

Update: It seems like textarea has to be defocused after updated, for more info: How do I set up a listener in jQuery/javascript to monitor a if a value in the textbox has changed?

Upvotes: 3

Alex Gray
Alex Gray

Reputation: 16463

There is an excellent jquery plugin, LiveQuery, that does just this.

Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, even after the page has been loaded and the DOM updated.

For example you could use the following code to bind a click event to all A tags, even any A tags you might add via AJAX.

$('a').livequery('click', function(event) { 
    alert('clicked'); 
    return false; 
});

Once you add new A tags to your document, Live Query will bind the click event and there is nothing else that needs to be called or done.

Here is a working example of its magic...

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Upvotes: 0

Shiki
Shiki

Reputation: 16808

You can opt to create your own custom events so you'll still have a clear separation of logic.

Bind to a custom event:

$('#laneconfigdisplay').bind('contentchanged', function() {
  // do something after the div content has changed
  alert('woo');
});

In your function that updates the div:

// all logic for grabbing xml and updating the div here ..
// and then send a message/event that we have updated the div
$('#laneconfigdisplay').trigger('contentchanged'); // this will call the function above

Upvotes: 81

meo
meo

Reputation: 31249

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

change does only work on input form elements.

you could just trigger a function after your XML / XSL transformation or make a listener:

var html = $('#laneconfigdisplay').html()
setInterval(function(){ if($('#laneconfigdisplay').html() != html){ alert('woo'); html = $('#laneconfigdisplay').html() } }, 10000) //checks your content box all 10 seconds and triggers alert when content has changed...

Upvotes: 11

kim3er
kim3er

Reputation: 6476

The change event is limited to input, textarea & and select.

See http://api.jquery.com/change/ for more information.

Upvotes: 14

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