First you need to understand what ".ready()" is and does (http://
docs.jquery.com/Events/ready#fn).....
second, if you want to fire an event when someone "touches" a control,
then you probably want to use ".focus()", not ".change()", but what
you define that as may be different than what I *think* you mean
On Apr 27, 9:20 pm, Grahzny <cere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, folks -- I'm very new at this, so please pardon my ignorant
> question.
>
> I have a text field and a select input. My code sets the text field
> when the select changes.
>
> What I'd like to do is have it NOT do this when the page is first
> loaded, but only when the user touches one of the select inputs. (This
> is because I want to preserve whatever the user may have typed before
> they reloaded the page with a submit, which can also change the
> choices of the select input.)
>
> Here's my code so far:
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
> $("select").change(function() {
> switch ($(this)[0].id)
> {
> case 'depotspec_list':
> document.getElementById('depotspec').value =
> $(this)[0].value;
> break;
> case 'labelone_list':
> document.getElementById('labelone').value =
> $(this)[0].value;
> break;
> case 'labeltwo_list':
> document.getElementById('labeltwo').value =
> $(this)[0].value;
> break;
> default:
> alert ($(this)[0].id);
> }
> }).change();
> });
>
> My first thought was to just remove the "$(document).ready(function()
> {});" wrapping. But that doesn't work.
>
> I'm sure I'm just missing some fundamental bit here. Thanks in advance.
