html <input type="text" /> onchange event not working

Solution 1:

onchange is only triggered when the control is blurred. Try onkeypress instead.

Use .on('input'... to monitor every change to an input (paste, keyup, etc) from jQuery 1.7 and above.

For static and dynamic inputs:

$(document).on('input', '.my-class', function(){
    alert('Input changed');
});

For static inputs only:

$('.my-class').on('input', function(){
    alert('Input changed');
});

JSFiddle with static/dynamic example: https://jsfiddle.net/op0zqrgy/7/