title: html catch event when user is typing into a text input
body: <p>Im just wondering how I go about catching the event when the user is typing into a text input field on my web application.</p>
  
  <p>Scenario is, I have a contacts listing grid. At the top of the form the user can type the name of the contact they are trying to find. Once there is more than 1 character in the text input I want to start searching for contacts in the system which contain those characters entered by the user. As they keep typing the data changes.</p>
  
  <p>All it is really is a simple type ahead type functionality (or autocomplete) but I want to fire off data in a different control.</p>
  
  <p>I can get the text out of the input once the input has lost focus fine, but this doesnt fit the situation.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>