Here is my code.
At this moment I don't have an IE8 Please try to add $('#click').unbind('dblclick'); after create select element, it will dissable #click dblclick event.
$('#click').unbind('dblclick');
$(function() { $("#click").dblclick(function(e) { var options = "" for ( var i = 0; i < 50; i++) { options += 'Value - ' + i + ''; } $(this).html(options + ""); $('#click').unbind('dblclick'); }); });