how to find the latest selected item of a multiple select tag using jquery?

Answer 1

To get the last selected by the user, you can do this

var map = $("#multi").on("change",function(){
    var comp = $("#multi option:selected").map(function() {
            return this.value;
        }).get(),
        set1 = map.filter(function(i) {
            return comp.indexOf(i) < 0;
        }),
        set2 = comp.filter(function(i) {
            return map.indexOf(i) < 0;
        }),
        last = (set1.length ? set1 : set2)[0];

    map = comp;

    // "last" contains the last one selected /unselected

}).find('option:selected').map(function() {return this.value}).get();

FIDDLE