diff --git a/editor/svg-editor.js b/editor/svg-editor.js
index d1143a16..7247adce 100644
--- a/editor/svg-editor.js
+++ b/editor/svg-editor.js
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ function svg_edit_setup() {
 	$('#text').focus( function(){ textBeingEntered = true; } );
 	$('#text').blur( function(){ textBeingEntered = false; } );
 
-  $('#image_url').blur(function(){ svgCanvas.setImageURL(this.value); });
+  
   
 	// bind the selected event to our function that handles updates to the UI
 	svgCanvas.bind("selected", selectedChanged);
@@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ function svg_edit_setup() {
 		svgCanvas.setTextContent(this.value);
 	});
   
+  $('#image_url').keyup(function(){
+    svgCanvas.setImageURL(this.value); 
+  });
 
 	$('.attr_changer').change(function() {
 		var attr = this.getAttribute("alt");
diff --git a/editor/svgcanvas.js b/editor/svgcanvas.js
index a635183f..8d6dec0b 100644
--- a/editor/svgcanvas.js
+++ b/editor/svgcanvas.js
@@ -2839,7 +2839,7 @@ function BatchCommand(text) {
 					elem = canvas.quickClone(elem);
 				} else if (attr == "#href") {
           var xlinkNS="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
-          elem.setAttributeNS(xlinkNS, "href", val);
+          elem.setAttributeNS(xlinkNS, "href", newValue);
         }
 				else elem.setAttribute(attr, newValue);
 				selectedBBoxes[i] = this.getBBox(elem);