jQuery change() on <select> and firefox

Question

I have a dropdown that triggers an ajax call when its changed:

$(\'.travel-to\').change(function(){  
    $.ajax({
        type: \"GET\",
        url: \"/inc         


        

Answer 1

You're actually taking advantage of a bug in IE. Firefox supports onChange correctly, as it's not supposed to fire until the browser loses focus of the select field. (I answered a question yesterday about this very issue, in fact.) It's actually kind of dangerous to use onChange with a select, especially because there's no way for keyboard only users to skip some options. (On top of that, the mouse wheel seems to spin by multiple answers, but it actually fires onChange for each entry it passes by on IE.)

If you really want the event to fire whenever someone presses up or down, I would hook into the onKeyPress or onKeyDown events to fire whenever the "up" or "down" key is pressed.