To be able to listen to changes to HTMLInputElement.value

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title: To be able to listen to changes to HTMLInputElement.value
date: 2021-06-04T07:30:16.096Z
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number: 60b9d688793ddfd6b3110f18
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While we can listen to changes made by the user through the input, change, & paste events ; there is no way to know whether a script has changed an input's value.

This is a problem for implementations of things such as a float label : An input could be modified by a third party script (such as a password manager) and the float label implementation would be unable to react to the change.

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