How do I get the change event for a datalist?

Question

I am using a datalist and need to detect when the user selects something from the drop-down list. A similar question has been asked BUT I need it so that the event fires ONLY wh

Answer 1

You can manually check it on change. But you need to check change of the input of datalist.

$(document).on('change', 'input', function(){
    var options = $('datalist')[0].options;
    var val = $(this).val();
    for (var i=0;i

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