If you're supporting IE9+, you can listen to 
  input
  
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 to see if a text field changes.
Other than change, it fires while the user is typing and doesn't wait until the user blurs the field.
Older workarounds included polling the field every X ms to see if its value changed.
Unfortunately input is not triggered for check boxes.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2015-06-15 09:28)