Change event did not fire in IE when an explicit .focus() was used. Fixes #6374.

diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
index c44d7d0..82e309d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/event.js
+++ b/src/event.js
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ if ( !jQuery.support.changeBubbles ) {
 
                        // Beforeactivate happens also before the previous element is blurred
                        // with this event you can't trigger a change event, but you can store
-                       // information/focus[in] is not needed anymore
+                       // information
                        beforeactivate: function( e ) {
                                var elem = e.target;
                                jQuery.data( elem, "_change_data", getVal(elem) );
@@ -836,6 +836,9 @@ if ( !jQuery.support.changeBubbles ) {
        };
 
        changeFilters = jQuery.event.special.change.filters;
+
+       // Handle when the input is .focus()'d
+       changeFilters.focus = changeFilters.beforeactivate;
 }
 
 function trigger( type, elem, args ) {