onchange on radiobutton not working correctly in IE8
html, internet-explorer, javascript, radio-button
Solution
In Internet Explorer (up to at least IE8) clicking a radio button or checkbox to change its value does not actually trigger the onChange event until the the input loses focus.
Thus you need to somehow trigger the blur event yourself.. one suggestiong would be to have a function: as follows:
function radioClick()
{
this.blur();
this.focus();
}
<input type="radio" name="rad" value="1" onclick="radioClick" onchange="alert(1);"/>
Now your `onchange` event should be triggered but as you can see it is redundant code thus you are better off just using the `onclick` event handler.
The better solution is to use a modern javascript library like jquery which handles all these quirks for you..
Problem
I'm forced to work with IE8 (8.0.7601.17514) and I have this simple page: ``` <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head> <body> <form action="."> <input type="radio" name="rad" value="1" onchange="alert(1);"/> <input type="radio" name="rad" value="0" onchange="alert(0);" checked="checked"/> </form> <a href="http://google.com">some dummy link</a> </body> </html> ``` What I expect is that as the second radio button is selected, clicking on the first one will immediately raise an Alert. This works fine in FF. What actually happens is that when I click the first radio, nothing happens. Then, when the element is blurred (eg. I click somewhere else, the other radio, some link in the page etc), THEN the alert is raised. Is there a workaround to this? EDIT: apparently this behavior is exactly according to W3C spec change The change event occurs when a control loses the input focus and its value has been modified since gaining focus. This event is valid for INPUT, SELECT, and TEXTAREA. element. (thanks to @mu-is-too-short). The workaround to this is to add a onclick blur+focus: ``` function radioClick() { this.blur(); this.focus(); } <input type="radio" name="rad" value="1" onclick="radioClick" onchange="alert(1);"/> ```