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Krishan Wanarajan
10,939 PointsAnother Solution for Perfection Stage
In the mobile drop down lesson in the jQuery Basics Course, Andrew uses .change() to bind a listener to the select object. I tried to solve this problem on my own before watching the rest of the video and instead i used the following code and got a similar result...
$select.click(function() { window.location = $select.val();
})
is this okay? if not can someone please explain why?
1 Answer
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points.click() reloads the page immediately when you click on the dropdown. You have to do some hackey hold the mouse button down to be able to select another page. And the goal of this is for mobile. So it would probably be fairly difficult, if not impossible, for someone to change the page their on.
.change() is a method specifically for performing an action once the value of an input, textarea or select element changes. So nothing happens until you pick one of the other pages.
.click() is a no-go for this.