Javascript to detect whether the dropdown of a select element is visible

Question

I have a select element in a form, and I want to display something only if the dropdown is not visible. Things I have tried:

• Watching for click events, where

Answer 1

In jQuery, to test if something is visible:

$('something').css('display')

This will return something like 'block', 'inline', or 'none' (if element is not displayed). This is simply a representation of the CSS 'display' attribute.