Detect when a specific <option> is selected with jQuery

Question

I'd like jQuery to detect when the option with the id trade_buy_max is selected.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("option#trade_buy_max").select(function () {
        //do something
    });
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select name='type' id='type'>
    <option id='trade_buy' value='1' selected='selected'>Buy</option>
    <option id='trade_buy_max' value='1'>Buy max</option>
    <option id='trade_sell' value='2'>Sell</option>
    <option id='trade_sell_max' value='2'>Sell max</option>
</select>

I've tried the following, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Solution 1

This works... Listen for the change event on the select box to fire and once it does then just pull the id attribute of the selected option.

$("#type").change(function(){
  var id = $(this).find("option:selected").attr("id");

  switch (id){
    case "trade_buy_max":
      // do something here
      break;
  }
});

Solution 2

What you need to do is add an onchange handler to the select:

$('#type').change(function(){ 
  if($(this).val() == 2){
     /* Do Something */
  }
});

Solution 3

you can bind change event on its select instead, then check if option selected

$("select#type").change(function () {
   if( $("option#trade_buy_max:selected").length )
   {
     // do something here
   }
});

Solution 4

Use the change event and get the id attribute of the selected option:

$('#type').change(function () {
  var selectedId = $('option:selected', this).attr('id');

  if (selectedId == "trade_buy_max") {
    // do something
  }
});

Solution 5

$("option#trade_buy_max").change(function () {
    opt = $(this).children("option:selected").attr('id');
    if(opt == '#trade_sell_max'){
        // do stuff
    } 
});

Untested, but that should work.

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Comments

[Gene Bo]

Since my option values were unique, I could use this : var val = $('#select_xyz').val(); And the mistake I was making before I saw this post - I was using click(..) when I should have used .change(..) . Thanks!