Question: I have a drop down list on my webpage with a jquery event attached to the change event. On change I use ajax to load a partial view in a popup window.

When the user uses the keyboard to navigate through the list of items but then clicks a link on another part of the page I momentarily see my popup window. This is obviously happening as when the user clicks a link elsewhere on the page, the change event is triggered on the drop down first.

Are there any neat solutions to solve this problem? A simple solution would be to fire the event on keyup but I don't want this functionality to happen.

Here's the change event snippet of code

```
$('#lookup').change(function()
{
    $.get(..//load template

```

Answer: 
Did not find a solution that I liked or worked clean with my style so decided to catch trigger on both the 'change' and 'keyup' events so as to avoid this scenario.
The event could not be stopped because the change event is fired in any case.

One possibility could be to set a certain timeout between the event fired and the actual call of the $.get method in order to take your case into account, but certainly it isn't an elegant solution.

Otherwise you may call the return function only if a certain other element gets the focus (for example if there is a textbox, after your dropdown list).

I would not care too much about it as it seems your popup HAS to be shown on Dropdown change. If it is not critical, you may have a help button on dropdown's right that popsup your window on button's click.