dojo/form/select onchange event not working for me in dojo 1.8

Question

I am trying out dojotoolkit 1.8 and cant figure out how to hook up an onchange event for a dojo/form/select

Nothing happens with this

require(["dojo/dom","dojo/on"], function(dom,on){
   on(dom.byId("myselect"),"change",function (evt){
         alert("myselect_event");

});

If instead, the following hook into click works:

on(dom.byId("myselect"),"click",function (evt){

• but i want to capture the value after user clicks and changes

I am sure it is simpler than going back to Plain ol javascript onChange...

Thx

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

    var select = dijit.byId('myselect');

    select.on('change', function(evt) {
        alert('myselect_event');
    });

I've seen this in the reference-guide multiple times, eg in the dijit/form/select' s reference-guide at 'A Select Fed By A Store'.

Maybe it even returnes the handle, i haven't looked this up so far. But i guess it should work.

EDIT:

Considering @phusick's comment, i want to add, that you could also simply change the "change" to "onChange" or the dom to dijit within calling on(...)

Answer 2

Following in the footsteps of @nozzleman's answer try

var select = registry.byId('myselect');

select.on('change', function(evt) {
    alert('myselect_event');
});

If you use on instead of connect then you don't have to write onChange, you can simply write change.