After I click an item on a listbox, I'll do this processing then I need to remove this selection as it was at the first time so that I can click the same item again and fire the event of selected index change.

After I click an item on a listbox, I'll do this processing then I need to remove this selection as it was at the first time so that I can click the same item again and fire the event of selected index change.

• javascript
• jquery

• do you need any more help with this question? :-) – Andy E Commented Feb 15, 2011 at 9:57

1 Answer 1

Set the selectedIndex property to -1:

// Plain JS:
document.getElementById("myList").selectedIndex = -1;

// Using jQuery to select the element:
$("#myList")[0].selectedIndex = -1;

Working demo: http://jsfiddle/n84AW/