.trigger("change") not working for some reason

.trigger("change") not working for some reason

Hi there,

I have a textbox attached to an alert which I want to fire when the textbox value is changed i .e. while the user is typing.

I attempted to use the .change() event handler unsuccessfully. After some searching I found that the .trigger("change") handler should work better but that too is not working.

My coded example is quite simple:  http://test-psi-alpha.appspot.com/jquery3 and consists of the following:

HTML
  1.     <label for="textbox1"> this should flash an alert when changed.</label>
        <input type="text" id="textbox1" name="textbox1"/>

JAVASCRIPT
  1.         $('#textbox1').trigger("change", function() {
                alert("Changed");
            });

I have other jquery / ajax elements on the page that work fine onblur (select boxes) but I really want the textbox to fire on change.


Cheers,
Aaron
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?