Using the Change feature in jQuery with Chosen

[treeleaf20]

All,
I'm using the Chosen plugin (http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/). It says that I can use the following for any change events:

Form Field Change
When working with form fields, you often want to perform some behavior after a value has been selected or deselected. Whenever a user selects a field in Chosen, it triggers a "change" event* on the original form field. That let's you do something like this:

$("#form_field").chosen().change( … );

Note: Prototype doesn't offer support for triggering standard browser events. Event.simulate is required to trigger the change event when using the Prototype version.

However, when I do this in my code and try and do something like this:

$("#form_field").chosen().change( alert("this is an alert"); );

Or Something like this:

$("#form_field").chosen().change({ alert("this is an alert"); });

It never gives me an alert and actually makes the rest of my jQuery not work. Can anyone figure out how to use this change feature? Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks!

[devnull69]

The first parameter of the .change() method has to be a function reference rather than a call to a function.

$("#form_field").chosen().change( function() {alert("this is an alert"); });

[treeleaf20]

Thanks, that worked great. However I do have another question. Does Chosen pass an action with the change? For example, it calls the change event but I only want something to happen if I clicked the remove button. Is there any way to determine that action in this function?

Thanks!