Detect if an HTML select element is expanded (without manually tracking state)

Question

I\'d like to detect if a drop down is expanded or not. I don\'t want to use extra event handlers for click/mouseover etc because the drop-downs are dynamic and for other rea

Answer 1

Maybe you could do something like this:

$('#dropdown').live('click', function(){
    //bind mousewheel here
});

$('#dropdown').live('change', function(){
    //unbind mousewheel here
})