Jquery events for closing and opening select drop down , and not on change

Question

i want a neat solution to handle event for a drop down menu , so that when user opens the select menu , it alerts opened , and when he closes it , it alerts closed , neglect

Answer 1

the typical approach to extending the native functionality of a select box is to replace it with styleable markup and then tie the values of the new markup back into the origninal (now hidden) select element. (NOTE: I've not included any styles. This is a bare-bones example of using a select replacement).

var SelectBox = {
init: function () {
    if ($('select').length > 0) {
        this.generateStyledSelectbox('custom-select');
    };
},

generateStyledSelectbox: function (cssClass) {

    // Contained within .each to isolate all instances of <select>
    $('select').each(function(index) {
        var $source = $(this),
            selected = $source.find("option[selected]"),
            options = $source.find('option'),
            selindex = index;

        // Append styleable pseudo-select element to doc
        $source.after('<div id="result-' + index + '" class="' + cssClass + '"></div>');

        // Construct select list in pseudo select element
        $('#result-' + index).append('<dl id="activeValue-' + index + '" class="dropdown"></dl>');
        $('#activeValue-' + index).append('<dt><a href="#">' + selected.text() + '<span class="value">' + selected.val() + '</span></a></dt>');
        $('#activeValue-' + index).append('<dd><ul></ul></dd>');

        // Assign select values to pseudo-select lis items
        options.each(function () {
            $('#activeValue-'+ index + ' dd ul').append('<li class="select-menu-item"><a href="#">' + $(this).text() + '<span class="value">' + $(this).val() + '</span></a></li>');
        });

        $('.dropdown').each(function(index) {
            $(this).find('dd ul li a').on('click', function(event) {
                event.preventDefault();
                var text = $(this).not('.value').html(),
                    $base = $('.custom-selectbox').eq(index);

                $('.dropdown').eq(index).find('dt a').html(text);
                $('.dropdown').eq(index).find('dd ul').hide();

                $base.val($(this).find('span.value').html());
            });
        });

        // prevent link actions in dropdown
        $('.dropdown dt a').on('click', function (event) {
            event.preventDefault();
        });

        // open/close
        $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dt a').on('click', function () {
            $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dd ul').toggle();
        });

        $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dd ul li a').on('click', function () {
            var text = $(this).html(),
                newval = $(this).find('.value').html();

            $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dt a span').html(text);
            $('select').eq(index).val(newval);
            $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dd ul').hide();
        });

        // Hide dropdown on outside click
        $(document).on('click', function (e) {
            var $clicked = $(e.target);
            if (!$clicked.parents().hasClass("dropdown")) {
                $(".dropdown").eq(index).find('dd ul').hide();
            }
            // remove dropdown-open targetable class
            if (!$clicked.parents().hasClass("dropdown-open")) {
                $clicked.parents().removeClass('dropdown-open');
            }
        });

        // Hide native select
        $source.css('display', 'none');

        // assign initial (default) value
        var initialval = $source.find('option').eq(0).html();
        $('#activeValue-'+index+' dt a').html(initialval);

    }); // END .each
}
};
SelectBox.init();

Here's a fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/P6ZCn/ (again, without styles)