firefox selectionchange event for textarea?

Question

Listening for selectionchange events in a textarea works in chrome and safari, but not in firefox.

<div>selecting me will detect your selecting!</div>
<textarea>alas, I will not!</textarea>
<div id="f"></div>

document.addEventListener( 'selectionchange', function() {
  document.getElementById('f').innerHTML += '<br>selecting';
});

What event should I be listening for instead?

demo

https://codepen.io/jedierikb/pen/XWXxmZW

https://github.com/Automattic/selectionchange-polyfill – cloned Jul 16 '20 at 06:28 — cloned, Jul 16 '20 at 06:28
https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/53 – Kaiido Jul 16 '20 at 07:24 — Kaiido, Jul 16 '20 at 07:24
It works in my firefox 95. – Friedrich -- Слава Україні Dec 21 '21 at 18:51 — Friedrich -- Слава Україні, Dec 21 '21 at 18:51
@Friedrich yep, it appears this has been resolved – jedierikb Dec 22 '21 at 02:26 — jedierikb, Dec 22 '21 at 02:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '20 at 02:11

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While document 'selectionchange' events do not fire in firefox textareas, textareas themselves can listen for 'select' events, which fire the same event types.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/select_event

answered Jul 19 '20 at 02:11

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