click event for option doesn't work in IE

Question

I have a multiple select tag, and I need to write the function onclick of it\'s options, because I need to get the value of last clicked option, but when I wrote the followi

Answer 1

If you really want to have a click event on each option, you need to have List instead of a dropdown style.

To accomplish that, add the size attribute into the select element for instance:

<select type="multiple" size=4>
  <option>foo</option>
  <option>bar</option>
  <option>baseball</option>
</select>​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Now you can bind each option individually.

If you want to get the value of a clicked option use the change event handler and .val() method, like:

$("#multiple_select").change(function() {
  var val = $(this).val();
  alert(val);
});