Question

I’d like to do this simply without saving the starting value of the select in an object.

if i have (when i load the dom):

<select>
  <option value='1' selected>one</option>
  <option value='2' >Two</option>

and than i later change the selection so that another option is selected, is there some kind of property that stores the value of the option that was originally selected?

Answer 1

You should use the defaultSelected property of the options object to test if it was selected by default.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/jsref/select.shtml