Onchange Event for Text Area

Question

I have been trying to use and onchange event on a text area however nothing has been working. the normal change() or onChange() functions do nothing at all.

I have Tried things like

$('#areaName').on('input', function(){})
$('#areaName').bind('input', function(){})

I have tried eveything solution i have found online to no avail.

I just need the piece of code to trigger a function when the text in the text area has been modified in anyway.

Solution

This works for me in Firefox:

 <textarea oninput="alert('input detected')";>initial input text</textarea>

Comments

[cfnerd]

that's jquery, not javascript