I want to restrict the user if they select the language which is already selected by displaying alert msg using JQuery.
Is there any event which fires before the change event.

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What I did in this kind of situation was:
In Change event, compare the existing values with newly selected one.
if value is there, I alert the message and reset the combo box to default selection.