I've done a good amount of research on this and found a bunch of reported problems and solutions but the general consensus seems that all change problems in IE6 were fixed in jQuery 1.4.2.
I'm having an issue where a change event is not firing in jQuery 1.4.2, but it did fire successfully in jQuery 1.3.2. This is in IE6.
I'm about to submit a bug for this, but for my sanity I wanted to post it here first to see if there's something dumb I'm missing. I don't understand why this is working this way...
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>jQuery 1.4.2 Problem </TITLE>
<script src="jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready( function() {
$("#firstBox").change(function() {
alert("CHANGE");
});
// ONLOAD of document autofocus into the first element...
$("form").find(":input:visible:first").focus()
});
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form>
<select id="firstBox">
<option value="" selected="selected">--</option>
<option value="1">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
</select>
<br><br>
<input size="10" id="secondBox">
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Simple enough, right? Onload of the page, give the first element focus. Onchange of the first element, alert.
If you use the mouse, it works as expected. The page loads, the focus is in the drop down, you change the option, you get the alert.
The problem is if you use the keyboard. The page loads, the focus is in the drop down, you press the down arrow. The option changes. Tab off the field, no alert. Weird. To make it even weirder, if you tab back into the field and change it again (all using the keyboard), the change event DOES fire after tab out this time.
Any ideas?