title: What event fires when item in HTML select/dropdown list is selected?
body: <p>I want to respond to the user selecting an item in a select element. Yet this jQuery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#platypusDropDown').select(function () {
      alert('You selected something');
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...does nothing. It shows no alert, although jsFiddle sees it as valid jQuery.</p>
  
  <p>The Click event works, but it's too fast - it fires on clicking the select element, prior to making a selection.</p>
  
  <p>Of course, I really want to do something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#platypusDropDown').select(function () {
      var selection = $('platypusDropDown').val;
      $.getJSON('platypus.json', selection, data() {
          // . . .
      });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="platypusDropDown"&gt;
      &lt;option value="duckbill"&gt;duckbill&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="duckbillPlatypus"&gt;duckbillPlatypus&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="Platypus"&gt;Platypus&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="Platypi"&gt;Platypi&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>