I made a quick mock up of this to try to find the problem. As you have both stated, the problem only occurs in IE (I only tried it on IE6). However, I rewrote the following and this works on IE6. The problem seems to occur when you add selected="selected" to the second option value.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Sandbox</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> body { background-color: #000; font: 16px Helvetica, Arial; color: #fff; } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js";></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#mySelect").change(function(){ alert($(this).find("option:selected").val()); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <select id="mySelect"> <option value="1">Value 1</option> <option value="2">Value 2</option> </select> </body> </html> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:06 AM, pambuk <wojtek.zymo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Same here, would love to hear an answer. > > On Jan 19, 11:00 am, Steven Yang <kenshin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I apologize if this problem has been post or report. > > > > I have a problem using jQuery 1.4 when i use > > $("#mySelect").change(function(){...my logic...}) > > > > This problem only occurs in IE. 6-8 all have the same problem and jQuery > > 1.3.2 does not have this problem. > > > > This problem occurs when I bind a "change" event on a select and when the > > page is loaded the selected option is not the first one. > > What will happen is when I click on the select and not even have a chance > to > > choose my option, the "change" event is fired. But after the first > change, > > things works normally. > > > > i made a simple sample here:http://jsbin.com/apufa/< > http://jsbin.com/apufa/edit> > > > > you will notice when you click on the select the alert will fire, but it > > should only be fired when i actually change the option. > > > > is this a bug? > > > > Thanks >
