onChange is called only when the element loses focus

I want that as you type in the textfield the div 开发者_开发知识库changes (I have the code for changing the div already). However the onchange event is only called once you are finished and click outside the textfield. I want it to be called as each letter is typed.

My code:

<input name="platetext" type="text" onchange="setValue(this)">

onChange is fired when the input looses focus I think. onKeyUp should do the trick for you.

There is an 'input' Event you can bind your event Handlers to (I think this was introduced with HTML5).

I made a quick and very dirty example here: http://jsfiddle.net/RdKZH/

This would be the clean approach to this problem (as keyup does not work on copy&paste), but you might want to test if it already works in all browsers you want to support.