onclick event in select HTML not working in Safari

Question

I have an ASP.NET dropdown list control with onclick and onchange JavaScript events. Both work in IE, Mozilla, Opera and Chrome, but not in Safari.

Answer 1

Replacing the onclick event with onfocus solved the problem. I guess Safari doesn't like onclick event on select elements.

Answer 2

<select onclick="changeDate()">

Should be changed to

<select onchange="changeDate()">

Safari seems to react as a open even and not a close event, like in the other browsers.

Answer 3

For me in Chrome, onclick working with second click on select box Where as in FF & IE, its working fine for first click itself.

Answer 4

Sometimes you need to add preference to the JavaScript function as "javascript:"; for example:

<select onclick="changeDate()">

should be

<select onclick="javascript:changeDate()">