Dojo how to catch user's input of Dojo.FilteringSelect for onkeyup event

Question

I am catching up an onkeyup event on dojo filteringSelect However seems

var userInput = dijit.byId('someId').attr("value");

Only return either "" or some value precisely equals to one of the options. So seems like the filteringSelect can only return the <Select> part of the dijit instead of value of the <input type="text"> part, as regarding onkeyup event.

So what is the right procedure to catch user's current input of the FilteringSelect? BTW, current application is on Dojo 1.6.

Answer 1

Then you should probably try the "displayedValue" attribute:

var userInput = dijit.byId('someId').get("displayedValue");

If you ever need some information about what property you could use, I recommend reading the API Documentation (for the dijit library it is usually well documented).