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JavaScript

Posted by austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points

jQuery: How to fire event when an option is selected?

I have a select tag with a few option tags nested inside. I have a few seperate divs on the page that are initially hidden when the document loads.

How could I use jQuery to fire an event that shows certain divs when their corresponding option is selected? Is this possible with jQuery?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'm pretty terrible and JS and Jquery, but I built something stupid that functions. I'm sure there is likely a better way to do it, but this will hopefully at least give you an idea.

http://codepen.io/kevink/pen/vzDqp

austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points

Thanks, I built on this and I have exactly what I need now!

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Awesome! Glad to hear. It was a fun challenge for me too.