Re: DOMAttrModified not getting triggered

Sapna Natarajan wrote:
> I am looking for attribute modifications by attaching a listener to the 
> DOMAttrModified event for the document. However, this seems to get 
> triggered only when I use the string method "setAttribute" to modify an 
> attribute, for example myNode.setAttribute('value', 'yy'). It does not 
> get triggered when I use the expando dot notation to modify an 
> attribute, say myNode.value = 'yy'.

The latter doesn't change the value attribute, if we're talking about 
HTML <input>s.  The value attribute corresponds to the defaultValue DOM 
property, not the value DOM property.

> Is there any event that I can listen for to changes in the DOM 
> attributes using the expando dot notation ?

Generally, no.

-Boris