how to intercept innerHTML changes in javascript?

javascript addeventlistener interception
tic picture tic · Sep 11, 2011 · Viewed 25.1k times · Source

I need to intercept any changes in the content of a cell inside my webpage.

The following code shows me that addEventListener does not work.

function modifyText() {
alert("!");
}

var el=document.getElementById("mycell");
el.innerHTML="a"
el.addEventListener("change", modifyText, false); 
// After next instruction I expect an alert message but it does not appear...
el.innerHTML="Z";

The code is just a toy example. In my real case the changes in the page (and therefore in the cell, too) are made by a webapp that I have NO control over.

Answer

Mohsen picture Mohsen · Sep 11, 2011

You can't listen to a DOM element change that way. change event is mostly for inputs

There is some other new DOM 3 events that would help you on this.

Here is some:

DOMCharacterDataModified //Draft

DOMSubtreeModified

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