JQuery - click trigger on select box doesn't work?

Question

Does anybody know how dropdown list can be opened with trigger?

Here is code which doesn't work:

$('select').trigger('click');

Just for note - mousedown and mouseup also doesn't work.

Answer 1

What you are trying to achieve is impossible. Even if you trigger a click the drop down list won't open like if the user clicked on it. If you want to change the currently selected value with a new one you could use the val function. I guess the only solution is to simulate the whole UI look and feel of a select element using divs.