Jquery dynamically update “other” option in select

Question

I\'m working on a project that will be using a lot of select menus to enter various data. I\'d like to include an \'other\' option directly in the select that will trigger a sim

Answer 1

This will get you started. This will add the functionality to any select on the page, appending a new value to the select (and leaving other still available in case a mistake has been made).

$(function() {
    $('select').change( function() {
        var value = $(this).val();
        if (!value || value == '') {
           var other = prompt( "Please indicate other value:" );
           if (!other) return false;
           $(this).append(''
                             + other
                             + '');
        }
    });
});