Question

how is it possible to trigger change on a select tag without wrapping .val() or doing something like this

$('#id').val('...').trigger('change');

Maybe there is a event like the following that could make the job

    $(element).bind('DOMSubtreeModified', function() {
        // Do something
    });

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Changing the value in javascript does not fire any event. You will need to do as you have posted and call trigger or change().

The only other solution I can think of is some sort of hacky solution of using setTimeout or setInterval to check if the value has changed on some regular interval. But this just seems like an awful idea.