javascript - IE8 simple alert is failing?

Question

Why isn't the following piece of code working in IE8?

<select>
    <option onclick="javascript: alert('test');">5</option>

Quite bizarre - no alert is shown in IE8. I do not see the error icon in the left corner as well. Of course it works in FF and Opera. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Putting an onclick handler on an <option> element seems.... weird to me. You might want to switch that to the more common onchange event of the <select>. You can still do whatever you want to do from there, and this is the "accepted" way of doing whatever you want to do to the select. That being said, you might want to try removing the javascript: part of it. That is only needed when you are executing Javascript in a link href for example. An onclick handler expects javascript.