Thanks a lot for your answers! My solution with a bit of jQuery magic looks like this:
$("#wgt2" ).change(function() { $(this).children("option:selected").each(function() { var selectValue = $(this).val(); var selectText = $(this).text(); $(this).removeAttr('selected'); alert("Text: " + selectText + " / Value: " + selectValue); }); }); This works with IE and Firefox as expected. Now IE annoys me by handling the next step, but this is resolvable. ;-) Kind regards, Ralf