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JQuery Click event not being triggered in Safari?

Answer 1

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I found my problem. For Select boxes, you need to register a handler for a "change" event rather than a "click" event. It's strange that Firefox and IE work with the click event.

To sum up, the following code works across all browsers:

<html>
<head>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    <script language="javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $('#myoption').change(function() { alert('Select Dropdown was clicked: '+ $('#myoption').val()); });
    });         
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <select id="myoption">
    <option value="A">A</option>
    <option value="B">B</option>
    </select>
</body>
</html>

Tom 2009-01-23 08:35:09

I think "change" does not work in IE. IIRC, it is not triggered before the element looses focus.

Tomalak 2009-01-23 08:42:57

change on a select works fine in ie

redsquare 2009-01-23 09:08:03

Yes, change on select works in IE - the live version of the code I used can be seen in the select box at http://www.peopleperhour.com/reg_sup.php (when "other" is selected, a textbox is displayed asking for further info).

Tom 2009-01-23 21:19:13

Answer 2

A:

Safari and Chrome are both webkit based browsers. Webkit uses the native dropdown elements from your OS instead of implementing dropdowns itself, and unfortunately native dropdowns do not support a click events. For the same reason they also do not support CSS for option elements or other neat tricks.

The only cross-browser way to get those working is to implement this by hand using an <ul> and a lot of javascript.

Wichert Akkerman 2010-06-21 17:40:11

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