$("select").change(function() { var sval = $(this).va(); if(sal == 5) {
} else { // do something } }); On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, pixelwiz <pixel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, I have a little problem. > > I have a page that displays a list of people playing in a > tournament. > > I need to be able to generate a Leaderboard based on which players are > manually selected by the admin. > > Next to each person there is a drop-down list. An admin can go in and > select a "slot" that a player should be in on the leader board from 1 > to 8, or leave it blank if none. > > What I need to figure out how to do is the following, when a change > event happens on a drop-down list, and say the value 5 is selected, I > need to check to make sure that 5 is not already selected in one of > the other players drop-down lists, in other words, that the 5th > leaderboard slot is not already full. if it is, display an error > message and make them change that one first. > > Any idea how to do that with jQuery? I'm thinking it will have > something to do with the each() function, but not sure exactly how the > logic should work.