Click event on select option element in chrome

Question

I'm having a problem in Chrome with the following:

var items = $("option", obj);  

items.each(function(){

    $(this).click(function(){

        // alert("test");
        process($(this).html());
        return false;
    });
});

The click event doesn't seem to fire in Chrome, but works in Firefox.

I wanna be able to click on a option element from a combo, if I do instead another kind of element, lets say <li> it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Since $(this) isn't correct anymore with ES6 arrow function which don't have have the same this than function() {}, you shouldn't use $( this ) if you use ES6 syntax.
Besides according to the official jQuery's anwser, there's a simpler way to do that what the top answer says.
The best way to get the html of a selected option is to use

$('#yourSelect option:selected').html();

You can replace html() by text() or anything else you want (but html() was in the original question).
Just add the event listener change, with the jQuery's shorthand method change(), to trigger your code when the selected option change.

 $ ('#yourSelect' ).change(() => {
    process($('#yourSelect option:selected').html());
  });

If you just want to know the value of the option:selected (the option that the user has chosen) you can just use $('#yourSelect').val()

Answer 2

I use a two part solution

• Part 1 - Register my click events on the options like I usually would
• Part 2 - Detect that the selected item changed, and call the click handler of the new selected item.

HTML

<select id="sneaky-select">
  <option id="select-item-1">Hello</option>
  <option id="select-item-2">World</option>
</select>

JS

$("#select-item-1").click(function () { alert('hello') });
$("#select-item-2").click(function () { alert('world') });

$("#sneaky-select").change(function ()
{
   $("#sneaky-select option:selected").click();
});

Answer 3

I've had simmilar issue. change event was not good for me because i've needed to refresh some data when user clicks on option. After few trials i've got this solution:

$('select').on('click',function(ev){
    if(ev.offsetY < 0){
      //user click on option  
    }else{
      //dropdown is shown
    }
});

I agree that this is very ugly and you should stick with change event where you can, but this solved my problem.

Answer 4

I don't believe the click event is valid on options. It is valid, however, on select elements. Give this a try:

$("select#yourSelect").change(function(){
    process($(this).children(":selected").html());
});

Answer 5

<select id="myselect">
    <option value="0">sometext</option>
    <option value="2">Ready for Review</option>
    <option value="3">Registration Date</option>
</select>

$('#myselect').change(function() {
    if($('#myselect option:selected').val() == 0) {
    ...
    }
    else {
    ...
    }
});

Answer 6

What usually works for me is to first change the value of the dropdown, e.g.

$('#selectorForOption').attr('selected','selected')

and then trigger the a change

$('#selectorForOption').changed()

This way, any javascript that is wired to