jQuery prevent change for select

Question

I want to prevent a select box from being changed if a certain condition applies. Doing this doesn\'t seem to work:

$(\'#my_select\').bind(\'change\', funct         


        

Answer 1

In the event someone needs a generic version of mattsven's answer (as I did), here it is:

$('select').each(function() {
    $(this).data('lastSelected', $(this).find('option:selected'));
});

$('select').change(function() {
    if(my_condition) {
        $(this).data('lastSelected').attr('selected', true);
    }
});

$('select').click(function() {
    $(this).data('lastSelected', $(this).find('option:selected'));
});