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jQuery onchange-onfocus select box

If you need to bind a function to be called when a user selects an option from a select box using jQuery, you’ve come to the right place.

There are several different ways to skin this cat, but basically here is what we are going to do:

1. Bind a change event listener to the select box itself
2. When the box is changed, call a function that detects and retrieves the selected value

Here’s the code:
Sample 1


<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#selectboxid').change(function(){
	  
          var selected = $("#selectboxid option:selected");
	    if(selected.val() == 0 ){
	        alert('Select Module');	
	     }else{	
	        do something;
		}
	});
});
</script>

Sample 2

script type="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){     //$(function(){
$("#selectBoxId").change(function(){
var selectedValue = $(this).find(":selected").val();
alert('The selected value is'+selectedValue);
});
});
<script>

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