JQuery Click event not being triggered in Safari?

Question

I\'m trying to do something when a user selects an option from a select box - As simple as can be right? I\'m using JQuery 1.3.1 to register a click handler with the id of t

Answer 1

Safari and Chrome are both webkit based browsers. Webkit uses the native dropdown elements from your OS instead of implementing dropdowns itself, and unfortunately native dropdowns do not support a click events. For the same reason they also do not support CSS for option elements or other neat tricks.

The only cross-browser way to get those working is to implement this by hand using an

and a lot of javascript.