How to fix IE select issue when dynamically changing options

Question

I have a set of selects that all have the same options. Then I run those options through a filter so that any options that are selected in a different select don\'t show up

Answer 1

On the lines of Mathew Berg answer, I modified it to work using AngularJS directive:

angular.module('select',[]).directive("select", function() {
    return {
      restrict: "E",
      require: "?ngModel",
      scope: false,
      link: function (scope, element, attrs, ngModel) {

        if (!ngModel) {
          return;
        }

        element.bind("change", function() {
            //Fix for IE9 where it is not able to properly handle dropdown value change
            //The fix is to rip out the dropdown from DOM and add it back at the same location
            if (isIE9){
                this.parentNode.insertBefore(this, this);   //this rips the elements out of the DOM and replace it into the same location.
            }
        })
      }
   }
});

This way the fix applies to all select elements in the project and you do not have to change any existing HTML markup. I also used the following method to detect IE version to set isIE9 variable to true:

var Browser = {
    IsIE: function () {
        return navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1;
    },
    Navigator: navigator.appVersion,
    Version: function() {
        var version = 999; // we assume a sane browser
        if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1)
            // bah, IE again, lets downgrade version number
            version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")[1]);
        return version;
    }
};

var oldIE = false;      //Global Variable
var isIE9 = false;      //Global Variable
if (Browser.IsIE && Browser.Version() <= 8) {
    oldIE = true;
}

if (Browser.IsIE && Browser.Version() == 9) {
    isIE9 = true;
}