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    copied!<p>As far as I can tell this only is only broken in Internet Explorer. I have a script that creates multiple dynamic &lt;select&gt; elements and adds an onchange event for them. The onchange event fires in Firefox with no problem but in Internet Explorer it never fires. Using Developer Toolbar I see the DOM has the correct event listed, it just never fires. I've boiled down the problem to the following code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;script language="javascript"&gt; function addSelect() { var se = document.createElement('select'); se.setAttribute("onchange", "alert('Dynamic')"); se.options[0] = new Option("1", "1"); se.options[1] = new Option("2", "2"); se.options[2] = new Option("3", "3"); se.options[3] = new Option("4", "4"); var plh = document.getElementById("ph"); plh.appendChild(se); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body onload="addSelect()"&gt; &lt;select name="something" onchange="alert('Static')"&gt; &lt;optgroup label="set1"&gt; &lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/optgroup&gt; &lt;optgroup label="set2"&gt; &lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4"&gt;4&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/optgroup&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;div id="ph"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>The static alert message comes up fine, but the dynamic one doesn't do anything in Internet Explorer. I'm nearly positive I've seen this work elsewhere, but I can't seem to find other examples. Does anybody see/know of a way to get this to work?</p>
 

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