Jquery ui Autocomplete Combobox - changed not firing

Question

I need help with JQuery UI Autocomplete Combobox. I cannot get the \"CHANGED\" event to fire no matter what. I have pulled together this widget from various examples.

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Answer 1

simpler way to detect the user has changed the combobox Try this:

$("#combobox").combobox({ 
    select: function (event, ui) { 
        alert(this.value);
    } 
});

Answer 2

You can use this also:

$( "#combobox" ).change(function() {
  alert( ".change() called." );
});

Answer 3

Awesome and almost perfect! It seems the above statement does not initialise the combobox to default selected values. I got it working by doing this:

jQuery("#select_address").combobox({ 
    select: function (event, ui) { 
        alert(jQuery(this).attr('id'));
    } 
});
    jQuery("#select_address").val("default").combobox("refresh");