"But if it's not supported then why would it work in Firefox? " "working" and "supported" are two different animals
And it works because the "change" event does bubble events the way that works with ".live()", and, no surprise here, IE doesn't bubble events the way that works with ".live()".... but apparently some way around IE's shortcomings is in place for 1.4's implementation of ".live ()" On Dec 14, 8:56 am, "Scott Stewart" <sstwebwo...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Thanks Karl, > > But if it's not supported then why would it work in Firefox? > Secondly, would the bind method be a workaround? > > Thanks > > sas > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Karl Swedberg > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:33 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: load() function and IE8 > > Hi Scott, > > Take a look at the documentation for the .live() method: > > "Currently not supported: blur, focus, mouseenter, mouseleave, change, > submit" > > http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live#typefn > > The change event doesn't bubble in IE, so it doesn't work with .live > (). jQuery 1.4 is going to provide a workaround for that, but as of > 1.3.2, it's not supported. > > On Dec 10, 5:02 pm, Scott Stewart <sstwebwo...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > I fat fingered the last one so... > > > I have this piece of code > > > $("#AP_PONum").live("change", function(){ > > ap_po = $("option:selected",this).val(); > > $("#content-box").load("webapps/finished_jewelry/PurReq/display/ > > dsp_addPurchaseRequest.cfm?poNum="+ap_po); > > > }); > > > which works like a champ in firefox. > > > it's called from a drop down grabs the ColdFusion template and load it > > in a div called content-box. > > > This does nothing in IE8, no error, no load, no love.. nothing > > > any ideas on how to work around this?
