jQuery dropdownlist events

The jQuery-dropdownlist provides a number of events that you can subscribe to with the jQuery syntax.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $('#example-dropdown').on('dropdownlist.selectedItemsChanged', function (event, items, values) {
        console.log("New selection: " + values);
    })
</script>

Events

• dropdownlist.selectedItemsChanged fires whenever a user took action to change the selection in the dropdownlist; it provides an array of selected items in its second parameter and an array of selected values in its third parameter
• dropdownlist.shown fires whenever a dropdownlist is opened either programmatically or via user interaction
• dropdownlist.hidden fires whenever a dropdownlist is closed either programmatically or via user interaction