Generic typing used for "input" event listeners

# Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

typescript input event ts InputEvent typescript addEventListener("input",

🕗 Version & Regression Information

I just found it today but verified it was present back to 3.3.3333 I also verified it existed on nightly

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This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about... I looked at entries about event listeners, HTML element types, and callbacks.

⏯ Playground Link

Demo Playground Link

💻 Code

// Error on the typing of the event parameter
(null as any as HTMLInputElement).addEventListener("input", (e: InputEvent) => {});
(null as any as HTMLTextAreaElement).addEventListener("input", (e: InputEvent) => {});

🙁 Actual behavior

The sample code fails to compile because the input event is always typed as an Event, not InputEvent.

🙂 Expected behavior

For most elements, the callback event should be Event, but for <textarea> and <input>, it should be InputEvent.

According to MDN

For and elements that accept text input (type=text, type=tel, etc.), the interface is InputEvent; for others, the interface is Event.

According to the W3C spec, it should be InputEvent for any element that is contenteditable. I don't know that you can trigger an input event on other non-contenteditable elements so perhaps the event type can be made InputEvent, regardless of the element type it is called on.