The change event doesn't fire until the input is blurred (focus moves away from the dropdown via tab-key or mouse click elsewhere). If you want to handle the "changes" to the selected option while they're being changed, try keydown, keyup, or keypress.
- Richard On 9/21/07, Brook Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've tried this, but it does not catch change events trigged by the > keyboard. Why? > > Brook > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andy Matthews > Sent: September 20, 2007 1:21 PM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Re: NEWBIE QUESTION: Catch Select event > > > I believe you'd want the change handler. > > $("select").change(function() { > //do some stuff here... > )}; > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of hobbit > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:22 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] NEWBIE QUESTION: Catch Select event > > > Hi, > > I would like to catch the select event when a user changes the select item > in any <SELECT> in a form. Something like: > > $("select").select(function() { > //do some stuff here... > )}; > > Is this feasible? > > > > >
