title: How to detect HTML form changes using jQuery, in detail for a noob?
body: <p>I'm kind of a noob on HTML.  I've sifted thru <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/959670/generic-way-to-detect-if-html-form-is-edited">this</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10311663/find-out-if-html-form-has-changed">this</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24759718/how-to-detect-a-change-in-any-of-a-forms-input-fields-using-jquery">this</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025396/how-do-you-handle-a-form-change-in-jquery">this</a>, and more.  Here's the code I came up with but it, and many more experiments I've done, do not work.  I can pound on my input fields all day and I never see the alert.  Most answers assume you know something that I guess I don't know.  Can anyone tell me what may be wrong?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script   
  src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script&gt;
      $("#myform :input").change(function() {
          alert("Form changed");
      });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;form id="myform" name="myform" method="GET"&gt;
     &lt;!-- a bunch of text fields, etc --&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>