Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

FormKit does not fire change events: be more explicit about this

Open
#118 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the events section at formkit.com/essentials/inputs#events and review the linked issues for the confusion around @change. Update the documentation to distinguish FormKit behavior from browser-native events, explain the rationale, and show the recommended FormKit approach; done means all three suggestions are covered clearly.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Finding out that FormKit components do not fire @change events is kind of important I think. Unfortunately it took me 45 minutes to find this out, others may be as surprised.

Others are also confused:

(and probably others)

I think the docs are not explicit enough about this: https://formkit.com/essentials/inputs#events

My suggestions are

  1. To be explicit in this and state that it's different from browser-native events.
  2. Link to an explanation of why FormKit chose this so interested people can understand the why.
  3. Provide a simple example of how to achieve this in FormKit (using FormKit best practices).
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
19
Forks
29
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from formkit/docs-content

All issues in formkit/docs-content

Similar issues

More JavaScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.