jQuery – cancel change event on confirmation dialog for a Dropdown

Well, as Vinu has rightly pointed out, jQuery’s change event is only triggered once the value of the select has actually been changed. You would be better off doing something like this:

var prev_val;

$('#dropdown').focus(function() {
    prev_val = $(this).val();
}).change(function() {
     $(this).blur() // Firefox fix as suggested by AgDude
    var success = confirm('Are you sure you want to change the Dropdown?');
    if(success)
    {
        alert('changed');
        // Other changed code would be here...
    }  
    else
    {
        $(this).val(prev_val);
        alert('unchanged');
        return false; 
    }
});