Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to jquery and I am kinda perplexed with this issue.
I've got a page (dashboard.php) with 2 select boxes. The first select box triggers the jquery script below, which populates the 2nd box with values: /////////////////////////////////// <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> $(function(){ $("select#startstate").change(function(){ alert($(this).val());//debug $.getJSON("admin/startcities.php",{id: $(this).val(), ajax: 'true'}, function(j){ var options = ''; for (var i = 0; i < j.length; i++) { options += '<option value="' + j[i].optionValue + '">' + j [i].optionDisplay + '</option>'; } $("select#startcity").html(options); }) }) }) </script> /////////////////////////////////// I take the results of those 2 select elements and submit them to the same page via GET, changing the url to something like this: dashboard.php?startstate=AK&startcity=ALEKNAGIK I then grab the startstate value and see if a startcity elements has been selected. If it is, then I pre-populate the city names and add SELECTED to the one that was selected in the 2nd box. Here is the code that typically makes up the 2nd select element: /////////////////////////////////// <select name="startcity" id="startcity" > <? if($_GET['startstate'] == TRUE){ echo "<option value=\"\">ALL CITIES</option>"; $q = "SELECT DISTINCT cityname FROM areas WHERE stateabbr = '".$_GET ['startstate']."'"; $result = $database->query($q); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo "<option value='".$row['cityname']."'"; if($row['cityname'] == $_GET['startcity']){ echo " SELECTED "; } echo ">"; echo $row['cityname']; echo "</option>"; } } ?> </select> /////////////////////////////////// Ok, if you're still reading, the issue I have is that when I change the #startstate select box, and the #startcity has been prepopulated, Firefox ignores the change event. IE however registers it. I put an alert for debugging right after the change event to make sure. I would appreciate it if anyone has any ideas what I might have missed. Thanks in advance!