You can also register and bind custom events through it, so you can pretty much put 'anything' inside $.bind.
For more info, just do a search on creating custom events with jQuery and you'll find some stuff. Just curious, how does what you're doing come in useful when handling Chinese input? On Aug 4, 5:26 pm, park <park....@gmail.com> wrote: > Just noticed that a "text" event can be binded to an input: > > $(’:text’).bind(’text’, function () {console.log($(this).val()}); > > But it is not documented here.http://docs.jquery.com/Events/bind. > Google fails to help either. > > This event turns out extremely useful when handling Chinese input, but > doesn't seem to work in Chrome (works fine in FF 3.5 and IE 8). So I > want to dig deeper. > > Anyone have any idea what this is?