Question

Is there a way to track when a radio element gets deselected?

<script type="text/javascript">
$().ready(function() {
    $('#answer-1').change(function(){
        console.log('radio-1 changed');
    });

    $('#answer-2').change(function(){
        console.log('radio-2 changed');
    });

});
</script> 

<input name="question-1" type="radio" id="answer-1" />Value
<input name="question-1" type="radio" id="answer-2" />Value

JSFiddle link

Expected result: When selecting answer-1, it shows event ‘radio-1 changed’, then when switching to answer-2, it should show radio-2 changed AND radio-1 changed

Actual result: When selecting answer-1, it shows event ‘radio-1 changed’, then when switching to answer-2, it shows only ‘radio-2 changed’

Is there a way to get events when the radio’s get DEselected?

Answer 1

you can use .data

here is the fiddle that may help http://jsfiddle.net/wZ73z/19/